Soundings in Atlantic History Paperback by Bernard Bailyn

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (2011-09-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 640 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674061774
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany, and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David Hume.

In his Introduction, Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.

About the Author

Bernard Bailyn was a preeminent historian of early America and the Atlantic world. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Voyagers to the West, and received the National Book Award for The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. At Harvard University, he served as Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.

Patricia L. Denault is Web Editor for the The Business History Conference. She is former Administrative Director of Harvard University’s International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500–1825, and its Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.

Linda M. Heywood is Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University.

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of How to Write the History of the New World, Puritan Conquistadors, and Nature, Empire, and Nation.

Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.

Emma Rothschild is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Director of the Center for History and Economics, King's College.