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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• MitwirkendeR: Bailyn, Bernard,; Behrendt, Stephen D.,; Beiler, Rosalind J.,; Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge,; Dávilo, Beatriz,; Hancock, David J.,; Heywood, Linda M.,; Klooster, Wim,; Martínez-Serna, J. Gabriel,; Peterson, Mark A.,; Rothschild, Emma,; Safier, Neil,; Schiebinger, Londa,; Thornton, John K.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bailyn, Bernard,; Denault, Patricia L,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

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...

Table of 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