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The Transformation of the North Atlantic World, 1492-1763 An Introduction
M. J. Seymour
Book Code: C7380
ISBN: 0-275-97380-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97380-3
272 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2004
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • In a series of interconnected topical and chronological essays, Seymour writes about the creation of an Atlantic world after 1492 as a result of Columbus's voyage, the Hispanic empire that followed, and the English Atlantic empire that replaced it at the end of a period of global conflict in 1763....Seymour's essays provide an interpretive survey of the secondary literature and form the basis for his compelling analysis of the history of the early modern Atlantic world. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
    —Choice     April 2005
Description: Between Columbus' first expedition in 1492 and the Peace of Paris in 1763, West Europeans created empires of trade and settlement that re-made the social, economic, and political environments not only of their own peoples, but also those of the other societies around the North Atlantic. This study invites readers new to early modern Atlantic Studies to consider from some possible explanations for these extraordinary transformations of the lives of millions of people, free and unfree, and of the political powers of societies that previously had been separated by rather than linked by the ocean. In particular, Seymour invites readers to ponder how the first century of, in effect, Iberian monopoly, became displaced by an Anglophone hegemony. This volume is constructed around the questions to be addressed in any consideration of the early modern North Atlantic; reflections upon the factors contributing to the processes--technical, technological, economic, and social; the availability of alternatives to Atlantic empires; possible environmental factors; then a brief survey of interpretative themes in the period, divided into distinct chronological phases. In conclusion, the author suggests that, because the eventual "triumph" of an Anglophone Atlantic may not be regarded as inevitable, we should be conscious in the present of the unpredictability of the historical experience.
Table of Contents:
  • Framing the Questions: A Note on Bibliography
  • Setting the Scene
  • Going There and Getting Back: Technological and Technical Prerequisites and Developments in Travel
  • Conquest and Coersion: Technological and Technical Prerequisites and Developments in Warfare
  • Exploitation
  • The Availability or Absence of Alternatives to North Atlantic Expansion
  • The Push and Pull of Environmental Factors
  • 1492-1607: From the Halls of Motecucoma to the Lodge of Pocahontas
  • 1607-1697: la Nouvelle-France, New England, Nieuw Nederland, Nya Sverige
  • 1697-1763: Rule Britannia?
  • Conclusions and Prospects
LC Card Number: 200401020
LCC Class: D210
Dewey Class: 909
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