GU-Q HIST-106: Atlantic World

The first encyclopedic reference to Atlantic history Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history--through maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more.

As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives of people everywhere.

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows how, at a moment of crisis after the Age of Revolutions, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil forged a new set of relationships with one another to sidestep the financial dominance of Great Britain and the northeastern UnitedStates.

The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 looks at the historical connections between four continents Africa, Europe, North America and South America through the lens of Atlantic history. It shows how the Atlantic has been more than just an ocean- it has been an important site of circulation and transmission, allowing exchanges and interchanges which have profoundly shaped the development of the world.