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Bacon's Rebellion
Paul Musselwhite
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Bacon’s RebellionIntroductionBacon’s Rebellion in Virginia was one of the largest popular uprisings in the history of the British America, and it has ...
Baltic Sea
Eric Schnakenbourg
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Baltic SeaIntroductionIn the Early Modern era, the Baltic Sea was called the Nordic Mediterranean because of its unique outlet on the high seas and it...
Baptists
Janet Moore Lindman
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Baptists Introduction The Baptist religion began in Continental Europe during the early 16th century. Known as Anabaptism, it emerged as a rad...
Barbados in the Atlantic World
Justin Roberts
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Barbados in the Atlantic WorldIntroductionBarbados, settled by Europeans in 1627, was among the first permanent English colonies in the Americas, and ...
Barbary States
David Dzurec
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Barbary StatesIntroductionThe North African states of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco, which, until the 19th century, Europeans collectively refe...
Benguela
Mariana P. Candido
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Benguela Introduction Benguela is a city in central Angola, but the term often refers to its immediate interior and regions in the central hig...
Black Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions, The
Roderick McDonald, Michelle Craig McDonald
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Black Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions Introduction Between 1630 and 1780 at least five Africans landed in Britain’s Atlantic empire ...
Bolívar, Simón
Joshua Simon
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Simón BolívarIntroductionSimón Bolívar was born in 1783 in Caracas, the capital city of the Captaincy-General of Venezuela (roughly corresponding to t...
Borderlands
Kathleen DuVal
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Borderlands Introduction A borderland is both a place and a historiographic methodology, although historians often combine the two uses. A bord...
Brazil
John M. Monteiro
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Brazil Introduction In the early 21st century, one of the world’s largest nations, Brazil, owes its existence to a history that is intimately ...
Britain and Empire, 1685-1730
Gabriel Glickman
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Britain and Empire, 1685–1730IntroductionThe half century that followed the coronation of James II brought an escalation in English interest in the po...
British Atlantic Architectures
Daniel Maudlin
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
British Atlantic Architectures Introduction British Atlantic architectures is the history of buildings and built environments related to the B...
British Atlantic World
Trevor Burnard
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
British Atlantic World Introduction The English were latecomers into the Atlantic, with permanent settlement not beginning in earnest until th...
Buenos Aires in the Atlantic World
Claudia Contente, Fernando Alberto Jumar
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Buenos Aires in the Atlantic WorldIntroductionBuenos Aires, which was founded a second and definitive time in 1580, was until 1617 part of the Goberna...
Cannibalism
Kelly L. Watson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
CannibalismIntroductionCannibalism has loomed large in the Western historical imagination for millennia. The 5th-century bce Greek historian Herodotus...
Capitalism
Tom Cutterham
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
CapitalismIntroductionAs a conceptual apparatus for the analysis of complex historical phenomena, “capitalism” has been a powerful tool for historians...
Captivity
Neal Salisbury
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Captivity Introduction The study of cross-cultural captivity as a phenomenon of Atlantic history from the late 15th to late 19th centuries rema...
Captivity in Africa
Vincent Carretta
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Captivity in AfricaIntroductionFactual as well as fictional accounts exist of specific individuals taken captive in Africa and brought into contact wi...
Captivity in North America
Evan Haefeli
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Captivity in North AmericaIntroductionBetween the 17th and 19th centuries, America’s indigenous peoples captured several thousand European colonists a...
Caribbean, The
Gad Heuman
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The Caribbean Introduction The Caribbean includes the arc of islands in the Caribbean Sea but also the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, and French Gu...
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