The Atlantic world : a history, 1400-1888 / Douglas R. Egerton ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Atlantic world before 1492 -- The roots of an Atlantic system, 1100-1492 -- Iberians in America, 1492/1550 -- European resistance to Iberian imperialism, 1500-1650 -- Labor, migration, and settlement : Europeans and Indians -- The transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas -- The impact of Atlantic trade on the peoples in the American West, 1580-1780 -- Racial and cultural mix in the American West, 1450-1830 -- The Atlantic shrinks : war, reform, and resistance, 1689-1790.

With historians and other scholars beginning to reconceptualize the Atlantic World as a dynamic zone of exchange in which people, commodities, and ideas circulated from the mid-fifteenth century until the dawn of the twentieth century, the interconnections between people along the Atlantic rim create a coherent region, one in which events in one corner inevitably altered the course of history in another. As this book testifies, Atlantic history, properly understood, is history without borders—in which national narratives take backstage to the larger examination of interdependence and cultural transmission. Conceived of and produced by a team of distinguished authors with countless hours of teaching experience at the college level, this thoughtfully organized, beautifully written, and lavishly illustrated book will set the standard for all future surveys intended as a core text for the new and rapidly growing courses in Atlantic History.