Caroline A. Williams
Ashgate
Hardback
256
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten original essays by an international group of scholars exploring the complex outcomes of the intermingling of people circulation of goods exchange of information and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the wars of independence in Spanish South America c. 1830 and encompassing a range of disciplinary approaches the contributors direct particular attention to regions communities and groups whose activities in and responses to an ever-more closely bound Atlantic world remain relatively under-represented in the literature.
Ashgate
Hardback
256
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten original essays by an international group of scholars exploring the complex outcomes of the intermingling of people circulation of goods exchange of information and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the wars of independence in Spanish South America c. 1830 and encompassing a range of disciplinary approaches the contributors direct particular attention to regions communities and groups whose activities in and responses to an ever-more closely bound Atlantic world remain relatively under-represented in the literature.