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Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830

Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830

Linda M. Heywood
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These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany, and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David Hume. In his Introduction Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.
Language
English
Pages
622
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Release
June 01, 2009
ISBN
0674032764
ISBN 13
9780674032767

Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830

Linda M. Heywood
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany, and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David Hume. In his Introduction Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.
Language
English
Pages
622
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Release
June 01, 2009
ISBN
0674032764
ISBN 13
9780674032767

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