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The Transformation of the North Atlantic World, 1492-1763 An Introduction
M. J. Seymour
ISBN: 0-275-97380-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97380-3
272 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2004
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)
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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
About the Author: M. J. SEYMOUR is Postgraduate Administrator at Lancaster University. Educated at Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania, Seymour has taught widely on early modern history programs for Cambridge University, University of Florida, Gainsville, University of Texas, Austin, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked at Boston University.
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