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The American South and the Atlantic World
, 2013Most of the research on the South ties the region to the North, emphasizing racial binaries and outdated geographical boundaries, but The American South and the Atlantic World seeks a larger context.
Brian Ward, Martyn Bone, W. Link
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Religion in the Atlantic World
2012Writing on the diffusion of artistic forms in a transoceanic context, the art historian George Kubler likened an important work of art to a lighthouse emitting ‘signals’, which might be transferred officially, but might also be carried by ‘unexpected bearers’ to be ‘relayed’ to diverse people, including unintended recipients. This article adapts Kubler'
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Hybrid Atlantics: Future Directions for the History of the Atlantic World
, 2013Fundamental features of the early modern Atlantic – like the slave trade, the rise of experimental science and long-distance commerce, and the proliferation of religious confessions – were transnational in character. This essay surveys recent work in the
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2011
Sugar drove the expansion of European empires in the Atlantic world. From its cultivation in the Atlantic Islands in the 15th century to its production in Cuba and Louisiana after British and French emancipation in the 19th century, sugar was always the dominant crop in the Atlantic.
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Sugar drove the expansion of European empires in the Atlantic world. From its cultivation in the Atlantic Islands in the 15th century to its production in Cuba and Louisiana after British and French emancipation in the 19th century, sugar was always the dominant crop in the Atlantic.
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Scandinavia in the Atlantic World
2018The Scandinavian countries established overseas settlements in Africa and the Americas, starting in the 17th century. In Africa, trading stations were initially established with the consent of local rulers. The Danish trading stations on the Gold Coast developed in time into a more formal colony.
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OAH Magazine of History, 2003
T'his topic examines the beliefs about witchcraft and the nature of witch-hunts in a variety of cultures that rim the Atlantic Ocean. The focus is on areas that participated, either passively or actively, in the European westward expan sion from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Those areas include western Eu rope, England and Scotland, parts of
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T'his topic examines the beliefs about witchcraft and the nature of witch-hunts in a variety of cultures that rim the Atlantic Ocean. The focus is on areas that participated, either passively or actively, in the European westward expan sion from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Those areas include western Eu rope, England and Scotland, parts of
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Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
, 2013As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Americans, as scholars have long assumed, but members of the same groups that missionaries were trying to convert ...
E. Andrews
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2013
Death studies emerged as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry in the 1970s. From the beginning the field was animated at least in part by presentist concerns. Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death (1963) had, by the 1970s, led to a thorough critique of the funeral industry and the “high cost of dying.” At the same time, the public was also ...
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Death studies emerged as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry in the 1970s. From the beginning the field was animated at least in part by presentist concerns. Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death (1963) had, by the 1970s, led to a thorough critique of the funeral industry and the “high cost of dying.” At the same time, the public was also ...
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No-Names in the Atlantic World
Reviews in American History, 2003When justifying American independence from Britain, Thomas Paine noted that it was incorrect to think of England as the "mother country" of any of the colonies, for even among Europeans, "not one third of the inhabitants, even of [Pennsylvania], are of English descent."' Historians have recognized ethnic pluralism as a staple of early American history,
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2017
Crowds and crowd actions are a critical component of Atlantic history. Historians often refer to crowd actions or riots waged by Europeans or European colonists as “rough music,” charivari, or skimmington. Those same historians often refer to riots waged by enslaved people as “revolts.” However people referred to it, and none of these terms fit ...
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Crowds and crowd actions are a critical component of Atlantic history. Historians often refer to crowd actions or riots waged by Europeans or European colonists as “rough music,” charivari, or skimmington. Those same historians often refer to riots waged by enslaved people as “revolts.” However people referred to it, and none of these terms fit ...
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