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Soundings in Atlantic History : Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830 / / ed. by Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L. Denault.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674032767
  • 9780674053533
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.09821 2 23
LOC classification:
  • D210 .S68 2011
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Introduction. Reflections on Some Major Themes -- 1. Ecology, Seasonality, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- 2. Kongo and Dahomey, 1660-1815. -- 3. The Triumphs of Mercury -- 4. Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 -- 5. Procurators and the Making of the Jesuits' Atlantic Network -- 6. Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1710 -- 7. Typology in the Atlantic World -- 8. A Courier between Empires -- 9. Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World -- 10. Theopolis Americana -- 11. The Río de la Plata and Anglo- American Political and Social Models, 1810-1827 -- 12. The Atlantic Worlds of David Hume -- Notes. Acknowledgments. List of Contributors. Index -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, these innovative essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, as well as the inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and the awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of David Hume.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Introduction. Reflections on Some Major Themes -- 1. Ecology, Seasonality, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- 2. Kongo and Dahomey, 1660-1815. -- 3. The Triumphs of Mercury -- 4. Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 -- 5. Procurators and the Making of the Jesuits' Atlantic Network -- 6. Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1710 -- 7. Typology in the Atlantic World -- 8. A Courier between Empires -- 9. Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World -- 10. Theopolis Americana -- 11. The Río de la Plata and Anglo- American Political and Social Models, 1810-1827 -- 12. The Atlantic Worlds of David Hume -- Notes. Acknowledgments. List of Contributors. Index -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

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Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, these innovative essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, as well as the inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and the awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of David Hume.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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