Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time) 1st Edition

by Jack P. Greene (Editor), Philip D. Morgan (Editor)

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Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a
comprehensive and incisive look at how Atlantic history has been interpreted across time and through a variety of lenses from the fifteenth through the early nineteenth century. Editors Jack P. Greene and Philip D. Morgan have assembled a stellar cast of thirteen international scholars to discuss
key areas of Atlantic history, including the British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, African, and indigenous worlds, as well as the movement of ideas, peoples, and goods. Other contributors assess contemporary understandings of the ocean and present alternatives to the concept itself,
juxtaposing Atlantic history with global, hemispheric, and Continental history.

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"These essays should be enough to get any graduate seminar talking."--William and Mary Quarterly

"Atlantic history has become one of the most exciting branches of historical writing, but does it have a future? By inviting skeptics as well as devotees to reflect on current research and future prospects for the integrated study of the Atlantic world, the editors of this stimulating collection of
essays have performed a notable service."--J. H. Elliott, author of Empires of the Atlantic World

"Featuring some of the brightest minds in early modern history debating one of its most important subjects, Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal will serve as the indispensable point of entry for the next generation of Atlantic world scholarship. This engaging volume makes good on a longstanding
need to examine Latin America, Native America, the Caribbean, and the North American interior alongside the British seaboard. Cogent critiques and robust defenses match Atlantic perspectives up against continental and global alternatives. The provocative result is a testimony to the creativity,
thematic range, and ongoing relevance of the idea of an interconnected Atlantic world."--S. Max Edelson, University of Virginia

"Much has been written in abstract terms about what Atlantic history is and is not. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal provides every interested reader an excellent entrée to the theory and practice of Atlantic history informed by the latest research."--Karen Ordahl Kupperman, author of The
Jamestown Project

"Comprehensive, illuminating, engaging and challenging...[A]n impressive addition to Atlantic and comparative history."--The Americas

"A generation ago Greene coedited with J.R. Pole a seminal collection of historiographical essays entitled Colonial British America...Despite its guarded enthusiasm for a particularly illuminating new direction on what might be an endless intellectual cruise, this sea-chart of Atlantic history is
just as helpful, and could become almost as influential as its predecessor."--American Historical Review

"The 'competing perspectives' offered in this collection of essays are extremely useful to any student or researcher of the early modern period as they provide an opportunity for critical reflection."--Kelvingrove Review

"The state of the art in the rapidly growing field of Atlantic history. With a distinguished roster of contributors, this book will be the source of first resort for students and scholars seeking to deepen their understanding of the history and historiography of the early modern Atlantic world...It
seems likely that Atlantic History will define the topic for years to come."--Erik R. Seeman, Journal of World History

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Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University.

Philip D. Morgan is Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (December 31, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195320344
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195320343
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.1 x 6 x 9.1 inches

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very good but now dated

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The essays are fine and were definitive when the book was published. But now with more than a decade removed from its publication some of the essays as well as the debate on 'Atlantic History' have become dated. Although the book can still be read with profit.

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D. S. Harvey

A good summation of the state of Atlantic World scholarship at ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2016

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A good summation of the state of Atlantic World scholarship at the time of publication. Useful for upper level teaching.

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Edward Chick

First Rate Compendium of an Emerging Historiography

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012

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Intriguing insight and perspective of an emerging field of historiography. First rate academic commentary from a broad range of historians specializing in their respective interests. Well crafted and organized. Very much enjoyed.

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Joseph R. Gallo Jr.

atlantic history

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Atlantic History broaden my horizens when studing colonial American history.The interconnectiveness of Europe, North America, South America , the Caribean and Africa was quite engaging.

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The item was chosen to use as a text book in an Atlantic History course. it was well received. than you.

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Good Summary of Atlantic World Scholarship

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In their introduction, Philip D. Morang and Jack P. Greene write, “Atlantic history is an analytic construct and an explicit category of historical analysis that historians have devised to help them organize the study of some of the most important developments of the early modern era: the emergence in the fifteenth century and the subsequent growth of the Atlantic basin as a site for demographic, economic, social, cultural, and other forms of exchange among and within the four continents surrounding the Atlantic Ocean – Europe, Africa, South America, and North America – and all the islands adjacent to those continents and in that ocean” (pg. 3). They continue, “Pan-Atlantic webs of association linked people, objects, and beliefs across and within the region. Though always fragmented, the early modern Atlantic world came to be increasingly united through a density and variety of connections” (pg. 8). Furthermore, “borderland areas, transfrontier regions, places where natives and newcomers collided and often none ruled, formed another vector of Atlantic history. Such places gave rise to entangled histories” (pg. 13).
Joyce E. Chaplin writes, “The history of the Atlantic’s contemporary meanings occurred in three stages. In the first, Europeans thought of the Atlantic as a geographic space to get across, a rather belated idea that contradicted an ancient suspicion that the ocean was not a real space at all. In the second stage, the peoples in the post-Columbian countries that faced the Atlantic thought of that ocean as a space in which to make or imagine physical connections, both among different places and among different natural forces. In the last stage, people emphasized the Atlantic’s value as a route elsewhere, especially when the Pacific became a new destination for them” (pg. 36).
Trevor Burnard writes, “Greater British and Atlantic history developed together at roughly the same time (the early 1970s) and at least partly for the same reasons, including a desire to move away from what was perceived as the increasingly narrow parochialism of studies of small British or American towns and parishes, and a concomitant insistence that British history had been distinct from European history because of the particular importance of imperial expansion in British history and in British self-definition” (pg. 115). He argues, “Perhaps the single most important advance attributable to the Atlantic perspective has been its encouragement of the incorporation of Africans and Native Americans into the making of colonial British America” (pg. 121). An additional advantage of this study “is that it redresses American and British exceptionalism. To study the British Atlantic without recognizing that British actions were shaped and constrained by the actions of other imperial polities, notably the Spanish and French empires, is no longer intellectually sustainable” (pg. 124).
Amy Turner Bushnell writes, “The areas of neo-European mastery in the Americas were small and slow-growing: until the late nineteenth century more than half of the habitable hemisphere (defined as everything this side of the permanent frost line) remained under indigenous control. Meanwhile, between the island-like settler enclaves and the Indian nations’ vast territories, closed to outsiders, lay the frontiers, where neo-European and Indian societies met on relatively even terms, neither side having a monopoly of violence and each side trying to change the other for the better” (pg. 191). She argues, “Indigenous peoples shaped the course of Atlantic history in the Americas by subordination, interaction, or opposition. From the perspective of colonial history, they can be divided into three categories. In the first group were the incorporated peoples inside of empire, occupying niches in colonial encounters and peripheries. In the second group were the peoples on the frontiers of empire, reconciled or contested, the difference being that on a reconciled frontier, pacified natives interacted with pacified missionaries, traders, and soldiers, both sides achieving their ends without resorting to violence, whereas on a contested ground, negotiation was apt to give way to armed conflict” (pg. 194). Finally, “The third group consisted of the autonomous peoples outside of empire, opposing the neo-Europeans with their own weapons” (pg. 194).
Philip D. Morgan argues, “A voluntary partnership best captures the relationship between African traders and rulers and European merchants and ship captains. Africans called the tune in many aspects of this relationship, even if overall Europeans benefited the most from their exchanges” (pg. 225). He continues, “the volume of Atlantic trade, no matter how rapidly it was growing, was not large enough to have transformed Africa’s economy, although arguably the social and political effects of Atlantic integration were more dramatic than the economic – and more negative than positive. But even so, much of the continent’s development continued along lines dictated by its own traditions and imperatives” (pg. 232). Morgan concludes, “Africa was a full partner in the merging Atlantic world, but much of the continent was unaffected by Atlantic influences and, indeed, was oriented in other directions. In the early modern era, Africans were more important to the Atlantic world than the Atlantic world was to Africans” (pg. 241).
Carla Rahn Phillips argues, “Although the concept of an Atlantic world remains useful for understanding the nineteenth century and beyond, it was a far different Atlantic world from the one bracketed at one end by the fifteenth-century voyages of exploration and at the other end by the era of the Atlantic revolutions” (pg. 250). Jack P. Greene writes, “While the emergence of the Atlantic perspective has served to undermine traditional national frameworks, the multicultural turn has thus largely functioned to reinforce them” (pg. 301). He continues, “The new interest in the non-English colonial histories of areas in the United States points logically in the direction of the desirability of a broad hemispheric perspective that, by promoting broad comparative analysis across both the South and North American hemispheres and their adjacent islands, might actually enhance the prospects for transcending national frameworks. Moreover, a hemispheric perspective also seems to offer better prospects for achieving one of the unfulfilled promises of the Atlantic perspective, the possibility of drawing conclusions” (pg. 301). He cautions, “the primary obstacle to the development of a hemispheric perspective is, of course, the dense historiographies that, especially in recent decades, have emerged in the study of all areas of the Americas, historiographies that require enormous time and energy to master” (pg. 301).

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Un volume per gli amanti della storia coloniale

Reviewed in Italy on December 30, 2014

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Libro bellissimo ed emozionante. Acquisto "obbligato" per gli studiosi del settore. D'altronde, Jack P. Greene e' uno dei "grandi miti" della "vecchia scuola". Tutto da leggere e da assaporare riga per riga.

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