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Aztecs Abroad? Uncovering the Early Indigenous Atlantic
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Caroline Dodds Pennock
The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 3, June 2020, Pages 787–814, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa237
Published: 29 June 2020
... in the history of the European and Indigenous worlds. It has largely been taken for granted in recent years that the “Atlantic” is a concept of significance to European history and experience. Since the 1980s, “Atlantic history” has been a fixture in European and North American historiography, and we have seen...
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Ending with a Whimper, Not a Bang: The Relationship between Atlantic History and the Study of the Nineteenth-Century South
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Trevor Burnard
Published: 14 May 2013
...This historiographical chapter argues that, for all its many achievements, Atlantic History’s early modern fixation has exacerbated an unhelpful division between American colonial historians, who have been increasingly committed to Atlanto-centric perspectives, and colleagues working in the later...
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Introduction: Connections within and beyond the Dutch Realm in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie
Published: 15 May 2018
...While one reason for writing The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815 was simply that this history is too often neglected in general overviews of Atlantic history, there is also a deeper motive with relevance to the wider historiography. Precisely Dutch Atlantic history illustrates how...
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Colonial Societies
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Gabriel Paquette
Published: 03 November 2014
... slavery and indentured labour European–Amerindian relations colonial cultural life creole identity age of revolutions Atlantic history The colonial settlements established and developed by European states and their subjects in the early modern period were characterized by remarkable...
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Transatlantic Music Studies
Glenda Goodman
Published: 06 January 2015
...Transatlantic music studies is a growing field in music scholarship that investigates music, musicians, and ideas about music that circulated around the Atlantic Ocean from the fifteenth century to today. It is an interdisciplinary field that draws on Atlantic history to understand how music...
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Conclusions
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Rachel Winchcombe
Published: 20 April 2021
... Atlantic history cultural frameworks cultural encounters colonisation British Empire In 1612 the Virginia Company, in a bid to drum up financial support for the struggling Jamestown colony that had been blighted since its establishment by failed harvests and hostility from the Powhatan, launched...
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Introduction
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Catherine Jones
Published: 31 August 2014
...). It situates the book in relation to recent work in the fields of transatlantic literary studies, Atlantic history, musicology, and literature and music. acoustics and hearing Congress House of Geminiani Francesco The Art of Playing on the Violin Hawthorne Nathaniel imitation Jefferson Thomas music...
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Books
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James Poskett
Published: 26 April 2019
... Ethnological Society Imperial Mineralogical Academy Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries Russia scientific racism United States Atlantic history anthropology disciplines book history publishers reception Thomas Pringle was setting out on a long journey and needed something to keep him occupied...
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Published online: 29 May 2014
Published in print: 15 November 2013
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Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Pre-Colonial Western Africa
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Toby Green (ed.)
Published online: 31 January 2013
Published in print: 16 August 2012
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Published online: 17 September 2020
Published in print: 21 April 2020
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The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic
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João José Reis and others
Published online: 19 December 2019
Published in print: 27 March 2020
... in Brazil. It involves that dimension, among others, but in these pages the reader will primarily find a narrative of Atlantic history. Rufino s life takes us on a journey that begins in Ò y the African kingdom where he was born; goes on to Salvador, where he first arrived in Brazil as a slave...
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Published online: 18 June 2020
Published in print: 23 July 2020
..., shared history that transcends national or imperial boundaries.2 There has been an increase in interest in Atlantic history since the 1990s as historians have paid more attention to interactions between Africans, Europeans, and indigenous Americans. Compared to imperial historians, scholars who adopt...
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Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
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Ruma Chopra
Published online: 20 September 2018
Published in print: 22 May 2018
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Introduction: The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish History
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Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster
Published: 15 January 2024
... modern Jewish history in the New World can be accomplished by using the tools and insights of Atlantic history. The chapter highlights the interactions of Jews with others, which were not limited to North America or non-Atlantic Europe but extended to numerous places across the Atlantic world. It self...
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The Influence of Atlantic Studies on American Literary Scholarship
William Boelhower
Published: 07 July 2016
...This article traces the important paradigm shift from Atlantic history to Atlantic studies. It then identifies the creative tensions generated by a three-dimensional conception of cis-Atlantic, trans-Atlantic, and circum-Atlantic perspectivism. With this new hermeneutic climate in mind, it turns...
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Introduction: Early English encounters with the New World
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Rachel Winchcombe
Published: 20 April 2021
... industry Muscovy poverty Bry Theodore de Gilbert Humphrey monstrosity theories of American origins clothing nakedness sixteenth century America England Europe print culture Atlantic history cultural frameworks cultural encounters colonisation British Empire In 1606 King James I of England...
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Conclusion
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Laurie M. Wood
Published: 21 April 2020
... francophone law French studies eighteenth century studies global history imperialism Indian Ocean history Atlantic history comparative early modern empires in 1668, jean de Lacombe, sieur de Querçy, departed from the French port of Bordeaux to travel to Île de France (now Mauritius...
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Jesse Cromwell
Published: 17 December 2018
... actors powered the economic development of empires. This process produced common cosmopolitanism as subjects of different empires and cultures interacted over trade and mobility. The conclusion also emphasizes the tension between fluid Atlantic histories and the early modern borders and regulations...
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Introduction in the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1783
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Michael J. Jarvis
Published: 01 April 2010
...This book starts by presenting the argument that Atlantic history should rest on a maritime foundation. Early modern Americans were well acquainted with sailing vessels. For immigrants and slaves, crossing the Atlantic in ships was often a life-changing experience. This introductory chapter...
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