Soundings in Atlantic History : : Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830 / / ed. by Patricia L Denault, Bernard Bailyn.
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, scie...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (640 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674053533 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674053533 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Patricia L Denault, Bernard Bailyn. |