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Slavery in British America
Trevor Burnard
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Slavery in British America Introduction Slavery was the most important institution in colonial British America. Every area of colonial British...
Slavery in British and American Literature
Judie Newman
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Slavery in British and American Literature Introduction For some literary scholars, all literature that follows the establishment of Atlantic ...
Slavery, Abolition of
Michael Guasco
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Abolition of Slavery Introduction The abolition of slavery in the Atlantic world occurred during the 19th century, but its origins are gene...
Slavery, Atlantic
Matt Childs
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Atlantic Slavery Introduction If historians were forced to name the one institution or historical phenomenon that most decisively fostered ...
Slavery, Native American
Michael Guasco
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Native American Slavery Introduction Native American slavery has traditionally been treated by scholars as a secondary matter that is of histor...
Slavery, Public Memory and Heritage of
Ana Lucia Araujo
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Public Memory and Heritage of Slavery Introduction The study of public memory and heritage of slavery emerged during the 1980s. In various for...
Slavery, The Origins of
Michael Guasco
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Origins of Slavery Introduction Slavery predated European forays into the Atlantic world, but the system that developed during the 16th...
Slavery, Urban
Mariana Dantas
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Urban Slavery Introduction The study of slavery in the Atlantic World has been dominated by scholarship focused on the plantation environment....
Society For The Propagation Of The Gospel In Foreign Parts, The
Travis Glasson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Introduction The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SP...
South Atlantic
Mariana P. Candido
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
South Atlantic Introduction The Atlantic south of the equator line was the most active economic hub in the early modern world, connecting Afric...
Sovereignty and the Law
Ken MacMillan
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Sovereignty and the Law Introduction Sovereignty—or to use the Latin term, imperium—refers to the independent power of a monarch or nation ...
Spain, Early Modern
Allyson M. Poska
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Early Modern Spain Introduction During the early modern period, the Spanish kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were unique in many ways. For centur...
Spanish America After Independence, 1825-1900
Clément Thibaud
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Spanish America After Independence, 1825–1900 Introduction The independence of Spanish America was the unexpected outcome of the monarchy’s ru...
Spanish Colonization to 1650
Allyson M. Poska
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Spanish Colonization to 1650 Introduction With Christopher Columbus’s accidental arrival in the Caribbean in 1492, Castile became the first...
Sugar
Justin Roberts
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Sugar Introduction Sugar drove the expansion of European empires in the Atlantic world. From its cultivation in the Atlantic Islands in the 15...
Toleration
Evan Haefeli
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Toleration Introduction Toleration, also known as religious tolerance, is a topic in transition. Until recently it was restricted largely to l...
Tudor and Stuart Britain in the Wider World, 1485-1685
Ken MacMillan
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Tudor and Stuart Britain in the Wider World, 1485–1685 Introduction Britain’s forays into the Atlantic world began with annual fishing expe...
Universities
Anna Groeben, Sarah Lentz, Claudia Schnurmann
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Universities Introduction From the 16th century on, European powers carried their concepts into the Atlantic world. One of the most important ...
Violence
Geoffrey Plank
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Violence Introduction In recent years scholars have become increasingly aware of the pervasiveness of violence in the early modern Atlantic ...
Visual Art and Representation
Susan Scott Parrish
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Visual Art and Representation Introduction The field of art history has undergone dramatic changes since the 1970s as it has moved from practic...
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