The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration and Imagination

by Wim Klooster, Alfred Padula

This original book assembles four pairs of essays and four themes of Atlantic history. Offering all the advantages of an Atlantic approach, it explores major historical topics and the manifold connections between the Old World and the New in the early modern period. A four-part organization covers the role of specific port cities in Atlantic history; European migration; the African dimension; and ways in which the Atlantic world has been imagined. For an understanding of the continuous flow of people, commodities, and ideas present in the Atlantic basin in the wake of the Columbus voyages.

Genres: History

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2004