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Labor Systems
Ty M. Reese
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Labor Systems Introduction For the vast majority of peoples of the Atlantic world, their place within it was defined by their toil. The most s...
Land and Propert in the Atlantic World
Thomas J. Humphrey
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Land and Property in the Atlantic WorldIntroductionLand and the struggles to own it characterized the history of Europeans’ interactions with each oth...
Language, State, and Empire
Paul Cohen
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Language, State, and EmpireIntroductionThree distinct historical phenomena—language, state, and empire—each animated by powerful internal dynamics, mu...
Languages, Caribbean Creole
Silvia Kouwenberg
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Caribbean Creole Languages Introduction The intersection of the fields of Atlantic history and creole studies lies first and foremost in their...
Latin American Independence
Jane Landers
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-12-27
Latin American Independence Introduction The various independence movements in Latin America drew on Enlightenment philosophies about proper ...
Law and Slavery
Sally Hadden
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Law and Slavery Introduction Enslavement has existed in world history dating back to the earliest records we have, and its lengthy existence h...
Legal Culture
Marie Houllemare
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Legal CultureIntroductionLegal culture is a concept first used by US legal historians in the mid-1980s. It appeared under the influence of the Critica...
Leisure in the British Atlantic World
Natalie Zacek
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Leisure in the British Atlantic WorldIntroductionPlay and recreation are sometimes considered to be less significant elements of culture in general an...
Letters and Letter Writing
Sarah M. S. Pearsall
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Letters and Letter Writing Introduction The early modern period was a great golden age of letters and letter writing in many parts of the Atla...
Lima
Jesús A. Cosamalón Aguilar
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Lima Introduction The current city of Lima, capital of the Republic of Peru, is located at latitude 12° 03′ S and longitude 77° 03′ W and is c...
Literature and Culture
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Literature and Culture Introduction Atlantic literary studies is a young field that is in the midst of rapid change and expansion. The field de...
Literature of the British Caribbean
Tim Watson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Literature of the British Caribbean Introduction Until recently, Caribbean literature in English before 1850 has received relatively little at...
Literature, Slavery and Colonization
Madeleine Dobie
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Literature, Slavery, and Colonization Introduction The conquest and colonization of the Americas and the enslavement of Amerindians and Africa...
Louverture, Toussaint
Philippe R. Girard
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Toussaint LouvertureIntroductionToussaint Louverture (b. c. 1743–d. 1803), also known as Toussaint Bréda and Toussaint L’Ouverture, was a slave, plant...
Loyalism
Liam Riordan
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Loyalism Introduction Loyalism as explored here refers to the ideologies, experiences, actions, and legacies of those who opposed the American ...
Lutherans
Wolfgang Splitter
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Lutherans Introduction Lutheranism came to North America when a shipload of Dutch Reformed, together with a few scattered German and Scandinav...
Mahogany
Jennifer Anderson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Mahogany Introduction Mahogany, the common name for several related species of tropical hardwoods of the genus Swietenia (Meliaceae family), b...
Manumission
David Ryden
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Manumission Introduction Along the western rim of the Atlantic basin, slavery’s growth was primarily in response to economic imperatives. The ...
Maps in the Atlantic World
S. Max Edelson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Maps in the Atlantic WorldIntroductionMaps organized imperial expansion in the Atlantic world. They reflected European advances in mathematics and nav...
Maritime Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions, The
Mary Draper
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
The Maritime Atlantic in the Age of RevolutionsIntroductionBetween the 1770s and the 1820s, revolutions erupted across the Atlantic world. In North an...
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