Soundings in Atlantic history : latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500-1830 / / edited by Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bailyn, Bernard.; Denault, Patricia L.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 622 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reflections on some major themes / Bernard Bailyn -- Ecology, seasonality, and the transatlantic slave trade / Stephen D. Behrendt -- Kongo and Dahomey, 1660-1815 : African political leadership in the era of the slave trade and its impact on the formation of African identity in Brazil / Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton -- The triumphs of Mercury : connection and control in the emerging Atlantic economy / David J. Hancock -- Inter-imperial smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 / Wim Klooster -- Procurators and the making of the Jesuits' Atlantic network / J. Gabriel Martinez-Serna -- Dissenting religious communication networks and European migration, 1660-1710 / Rosalind J. Beiler -- Typology in the Atlantic world : early modern readings of colonization / Jorge Canizares-Esguerra -- A courier between empires : Hipolito da Costa and the Atlantic world / Neil Safier -- Scientific exchange in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Londa Schiebinger -- Theopolis Americana : the city-state of Boston, the republic of letters, and the Protestant international, 1689-1739 / Mark A. Peterson -- The Rio de la Plata and Anglo-American political and social models, 1810-1827 / Beatriz Davilo -- The Atlantic worlds of David Hume / Emma Rothschild.