Boston: Beacon Press, 2013. Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00. "The Atlantic world" is an emerging formulation within the profession supported by a growing body of literature and acceptance among historians. Living in the Atlantic World. The purpose of Atlantic history, as outlined in the Introduction, is the study of the convergence and conflict of numerous African, Caribbean, … The benefits of the American Revolution for the poor, for women, and, perhaps most of all, for enslaved people, were very limited. The United States had been joined by a second republican experiment in the New World. Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution by Geoffrey Plank Hardcover $17.31. John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1240-1820 (ISBN: 978-0-521-72734-1) Roger Schlesinger, In the Wake of Columbus: The Impact of the New World on Europe 2nd Ed. In comparison to the French and Haitian Revolutions, the lack of radical change in the American Revolution is glaring. John Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) David G. Sweet and Gary B. Nash, eds. 3 While the construct has instructional utility for the curriculum in both European and world history, it also can be very useful in the newly restructured AP U.S. History course. Finally, the paper draws a distinction between Atlantic history and Global history … an Atlantic context, and it suggests some possibly fruitful lines of enquiry that would lead to a better understanding of how an Atlantic world was fashioned and functioned during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Over the past two decades a large number of historians have come to treat Atlantic World history as a formal area for scholarly inquiry. The Atlantic in World History. This item: The Atlantic in World History (New Oxford World History) by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Paperback $22.70. Course Outline and Reading Assignments Topic 1 The Formation of the Atlantic World Thornton to p. 28 Mustakeem, Sowande M. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Struggle & Survival in Colonial America (University of California Press, 1981). In Stock. This arose from recognition that many of the most significant historical forces of the Early Modern World could be better understood by analysis of their generation and impact over this broad geographic area. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailers, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Over nearly four centuries, Atlantic-based trade shaped modern world history and life in America. Douglas Egerton, Alison Games, Jane Landers, Kris Lane, and Donald Wright's The Atlantic World manages to achieve the daunting task of cramming nearly five hundred years of the history of four continents into about five hundred pages. (ISBN: 978-0-88295-249-9) Maritime commerce connected the peoples and nations that rimmed the Atlantic in a web of trade, conquest, settlement, and slavery. Details. She is the author of Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Cambridge, Mass., 1999); co-author (with Douglas R. Egerton, Kris E. Lane, and Donald R. Wright) of The Atlantic World: A History, 1400–1888 (forthcoming); and co-editor (with Adam Rothman) of Major Problems in Atlantic History (forthcoming). The Atlantic world, which has been discussed and studied by scholars, such as Paul Gilroy, and historians, such as Douglas Egerton, encompasses both the New World… The past two decades a large number of historians have come to treat World. 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