Anna Suranyi

Gebundenes Buch

The Atlantic Connection

A History of the Atlantic World, 1450-1900

Beschreibung

The Atlantic Connection examines the major themes of Atlantic history from 1450 to 1900. During this period, ships, goods, diseases, human beings and ideas flowed across the ocean, tying together the Atlantic basin in a complex web of relationships. Divided into five main sections, this book considers key cultural themes such as gender, social developments, the economy, and ideologies. The Atlantic Connection is shaped by its exploration of a key question: how did Europe come to dominate the Atlantic? Adeptly weaving a multitude of events into a larger analytical narrative, this book will be essential reading for students of Atlantic history.

Autor

Anna Suranyi is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Endicott College. Her publications include The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England (2008).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415639859
• ISBN-10: 0415639859
• Artikelnr.: 38529470

Rezensionen

"Historians have long been challenged by the remarkable diversity of the peoples who engaged with one another on and across the Atlantic Ocean, and the resulting difficulty in doing justice to so many inter-related histories. In The Atlantic Connection Anna Suranyi has met this challenge with an impressively comprehensive overview of the key themes and issues of Atlantic history. Well-written and accessible, this book provides an excellent introduction to the ways in which the interactions between Europeans, Native Americans and Africans shaped their Atlantic World."

Simon P. Newman, University of Glasgow, UK

"This broad synthesis of the history of the Atlantic World by Anna Suranyi is a welcome entry into a field in which the historiography has proliferated over a period of many years...A major strength of Suranyi's approach lies in the breadth of her themes and her willingness to synthesise boldly in areas that themselves have large, discrete historiographies."

John G. Reid, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, in Journal of Pacific History