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The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

, 2013
A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced labourers in ...
Denver Brunsman
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Scotland and the Atlantic World

2015
For a small, resource-poor nation on the periphery of western Europe, few peoples had as conspicuous a presence in the world of the early modern Atlantic as did the Scots. Indeed, they would seem to have been outsized contributors to a whole range of activities in the Atlantic world: religion and education, migration and trade, medicine and botany ...
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Medicalizing blackness: making racial difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840

Slavery & Abolition, 2019
T. Lockley
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For a Comprehensive History of the Atlantic World or Histories Connected In and Beyond the Atlantic World?

Annales (English ed.), 2012
This article deals with the field of Atlantic history, which first rose to prominence in North America in the early 1990s. Based on a critical review of two recently published books that reflect this “new” historiographical current, it presents the various debates dividing the Atlanticist community, including the different ways of conceptualizing the ...
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The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World

2012
This book focuses on the history of the Atlantic World from 1450–1820 and contains thirty-seven articles that offer a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices around and within the Atlantic basin. As a result of these movements, new peoples, economies, societies, polities, and
Nicholas Canny, Philip D. Morgan
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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World

Journal of American History, 2018
S. Klepp
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Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

, 2018
Katharine Gerbner
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Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World

, 2018
E. Rugemer
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Indigo in the Atlantic World

2018
Around 1560, indigo-yielding plants were identified in the New World. Settlers turned with enthusiasm to the industry, cultivating the native Indigofera species on large-scale plantations from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the Gulf of Fonseca. Production surged, and by 1600 indigo had become the third most valuable export from the Spanish Indies ...
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The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800

, 2018
Allyson M. Poska
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