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The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

, 2016
In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatan imagined how to live freely.
David Kazanjian
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Spanish Atlantic World

2023
The Spanish Atlantic world cannot be understood as identical to the Spanish Empire or the Hispanic monarchy but is something that encompasses and transcends them at once. Considered in its horizontal dimension rather than its vertical one, this world does not reflect the territory of the Spanish monarchy since it puts in relation regions and areas—from
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Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

, 2015
Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804.
J. Polasky
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Theorizing Conversion: Christianity, Colonization, and Consciousness in the Early Modern Atlantic World

, 2015
While Christian evangelization and conversion were often the primary justifications for imperial expansion in the early modern Atlantic world, the meaning of the word “conversion” remains contested among scholars, particularly when used to refer to non ...
Katharine Gerbner
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The Atlantic world

, 2014
Atlantic Creoles explores the contested, fractured world inhabited by groups of mixedrace creoles as they negotiated the nexus between Florida, Saint-Domingue, and Cuba during the Age of Revolutions.
D. Coffman, A. Leonard, W. O’Reilly
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Shakespeare and the Atlantic World

2014
Shakespeare’s career as a playwright for the Lord Chamberlain’s men, later the King’s men, coincided almost exactly with England’s first attempts at establishing a colonial presence in the New World of the Americas. In 1585, shortly before the young Shakespeare is thought to have arrived in London, Sir Walter Ralegh’s first expedition across the ...
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The Other Atlantic World

History Compass, 2003
AbstractDespite the common imagination of the early modern Atlantic World as centered in the British‐dominated North Atlantic, a broader perspective reveals that there is in fact another Atlantic World which is both larger and older than the English version, and whose general history responds to global but not necessarily European currents of history.1
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Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

, 2014
Introduction. Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective -Cecile Vidal PART I. EMPIRES Chapter 1. "To Establish One Law and Definite Rules": Race, Religion, and the Transatlantic Origins of the Louisiana Code Noir -Guillaume Aubert Chapter 2.
Cécile Vidal
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An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland

, 2013
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Contacts, competition, and copper: Benguela until 1710 2. The rise of an Atlantic port 3. Benguela and the South Atlantic World 4. Mechanisms of enslavement 5.
Mariana P. Candido
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Sugar in the Atlantic World

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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