
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/1/2012
EAN 9780521898751, ISBN10: 0521898757
Hardcover, 562 pages, 24.1 x 16.5 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject.
Part I. The Atlantic Background
1. The foundation of the Atlantic world, 1250–1600
Part II. Three Atlantic Worlds
2. The European background
3. The African background
4. The American world, 1450–1700
Part III. The Nature of Encounter and its Aftermath
5. Conquest
6. Colonization
7. Contact
Part IV. Culture Transition and Change
8. Transfer and retention in language
9. Aesthetic change
10. Religious stability and change
11. The revolutionary moment in the Atlantic.