The Atlantic connection: a history of the Atlantic world, 1450-1900

Part I. Explorations and first contacts -- The Atlantic world before 1492 -- Europe: a new age of trade and travel -- Medieval Africa -- The Americas -- Part II. Colonization and conquest -- The voyages of Columbus -- The Columbian exchange -- Earliest encounters -- Spanish colonial institutions in...

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Main Author: Suranyi, Anna 1967- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Routledge 2015
In:Year: 2015
Reviews:[Rezension von: Suranyi, Anna, The Atlantic Connection: A History of the Atlantic World, 1450–1900] (2017) (Suranyi, Anna)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Atlantic Ocean / Commerce / Slavery / Conquest / War / History 1450-1900
B Atlantic Ocean / History 1450-1900
Further subjects:B World Politics
B Atlantic Ocean Region History
B Europe Relations (Atlantic Ocean Region)
B Slavery (Atlantic Ocean Region) History
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Summary:Part I. Explorations and first contacts -- The Atlantic world before 1492 -- Europe: a new age of trade and travel -- Medieval Africa -- The Americas -- Part II. Colonization and conquest -- The voyages of Columbus -- The Columbian exchange -- Earliest encounters -- Spanish colonial institutions in New Spain -- The colonization of Brazil -- Colonial settlements in Northern America and the Caribbean -- Part III: Connections, journeys, and war -- Atlantic trade and empire -- Slavery -- Part IV: The age of ideas -- The enlightenment -- The age of revolution -- New forms of resistance and expansion -- The abolition of slavery in the Atlantic -- Part IV: The paradox of modernity -- Industrialization -- Migration -- Atlantic societies in the nineteenth century -- Continued colonialism -- Conclusions
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 203-218
ISBN:0415639867