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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...
Cartier, Jacques
Alan Gordon
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Jacques CartierIntroductionJacques Cartier (b. 1491–d. 1557), a sea captain from Saint-Malo on France’s northern coast, was one of the first French sa...
Castas
Rachel O'Toole
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Castas Introduction Lower-status people and people of color in colonial Latin America, or the castas, as well as casta categories or terms tha...
Catholicism
Allyson M. Poska
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
CatholicismIntroductionThe Roman Catholic Church was the single largest institution of the early modern Atlantic world. Its reach extended from the Lo...
Cattle in the Atlantic World
Eva Botella Ordinas
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Cattle in the Atlantic WorldIntroductionThere is more flesh in the history of cattle than meets the eye because there is probably more culture and pol...
Central Europe and the Atlantic World
Csaba Lévai, Zbigniew Mazur
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Central Europe and the Atlantic WorldIntroductionCentral Europe as defined in this article includes the historical territories of the Holy Roman Empir...
Charleston
Emma Hart
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Charleston Introduction The fourth largest city in the mainland British colonies, Charleston was the major urban center in the plantation Sout...
Chartered Companies, British and Dutch
Tony Webster
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
British and Dutch Chartered Companies Introduction Chartered companies were commercial organizations that enjoyed special privileges granted by...
Cherokee
Gregory D. Smithers
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
CherokeeIntroductionThe Cherokee are an Iroquois-speaking people who at the time of contact with Europeans in the 16th century occupied a sizeable hom...
Childhood
Ruth Herndon
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Childhood Introduction This bibliography focuses on childhood in Atlantic world cultures in the 17th and 18th centuries (1600–1800). Geographi...
Chinese Indentured Servitude in the Atlantic World
Lomarsh Roopnarine
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Chinese Indentured Servitude in the Atlantic WorldIntroductionAlthough the first shipload of about 400 Chinese indentured servants arrived in Trinidad...
Chocolate
Adam Siegel, Axel Borg
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Chocolate Introduction While the role of Theobroma cacao L. in the Atlantic economy has been overshadowed by other commodity crops such as cof...
Cities and Urbanization in Portuguese America
Cláudia Damasceno Fonseca, Renata Malcher de Araujo
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Cities and Urbanization in Portuguese AmericaIntroductionThis article looks at cities founded by the Portuguese in South America (i.e., Brazil and par...
Citizenship in the Atlantic World
Federica Morelli
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Citizenship in the Atlantic WorldIntroductionNormally scholars, including historians of the Atlantic world, have traditionally strictly linked the con...
Class and Social Structure
Simon Middleton
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Class and Social Structure Introduction The study of social structure—meaning the relationships between different social groups and the signif...
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