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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Butel |
| ISBN: | 0415106907 9780415106900 |
| OCLC Number: | 39897295 |
| Language Note: | Translation of Histoire de l'Atlantique. |
| Description: | xiii, 330 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Atlantic legends and Atlantic reality before the Iberian discoveries. The legendary Atlantic ; The realities of the ancients ; The Irish and the Vikings in the North Atlantic -- A new Atlantic: from the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. A new Mediterranean Atlantic ; Exploring the African Atlantic ; The western ocean and the New World of the Iberians ; The Europeans and the North Atlantic -- The Atlantic and the Iberians: sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. The hopes and realities of Columbus's America ; La Carrera de Indias: trade and ports ; La Carrera de Indias and the Atlantic economy ; The Iberian Atlantic is opened to foreigners -- The Atlantic and the growth of the naval powers: the seventeenth century. The precocity and scale of Dutch ambitions ; Dutch participation in the Iberian Atlantic, 1609-1621 ; The Dutch West Indies Company and the great Atlantic projects ; A new Atlantic age: the Antillean plantations ; The English presence in the Atlantic ; The French challenge: from Newfoundland to the Antilles -- The golden age of the colonial Atlantic: the eighteenth century. England and France: the two great rivals ; Expanding markets -- Men and powers in the Atlantic: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The dominant poles of the Atlantic ; More and more men ; The Atlantic powers -- The Atlantic in the nineteenth century: tradition and change. An age-old but always changing transatlantic trade ; English advantages and American successes at the beginning of the nineteenth century ; New York and Liverpool, the new Atlantic of the liners ; Europe crosses the ocean: immigrants in the New World -- The Atlantic in the twentieth century. Transformations in the Atlantic from 1914 to 1939 ; The Second World War and the new age of the Atlantic -- Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Seas in history. |
| Other Titles: | Histoire de l'Atlantique. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Butel ; translated by Iain Hamilton Grant. |
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Abstract:
For abstracts see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 11, 1999-2000 (2001); p. 22.
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