Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction:
1. The Atlantic World: Definition, Theory, and Boundaries: D’Maris Coffman, Adrian
Leonard and William O'Reilly, University of Cambridge
Part 1: Atlantic Explorations
2. Animals in Atlantic North America: Karim Tiro, Xavier University and James Carson,
Queen’s University Canada
3. Science and ideology in the Spanish Atlantic: Sandra Rebok, The Huntington Library /
Spanish National Research Council, Madrid
4. Fish and Fisheries in the Atlantic World: David Starkey, University of Hull
Part 2: The Movement of Peoples
5. Facing East from the South: Indigenous Americans in the Mostly Iberian Atlantic World:
Laura E. Matthew, Marquette University
6. Southern Africa and the Atlantic World: Gerald Groenewald, University of Johannesburg
7. Emigration from the Habsburg Monarchy and Salzburg to the New World, 1700-1848:
William O’Reilly, University of Cambridge
8. Seafaring communities, 1800-1850: Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University
Part 3: Cultural Encounters
9. Colour Prejudice in the French Atlantic World: Mélanie Lamotte, University of Cambridge
10. Atlantic Slaveries: Britons, Barbary and the Atlantic World: Cate Styer
11. Morocco and Atlantic History: James A. O. C. Brown, University of Cambridge
12. The Atlantic and Pacific Worlds: Paul D’Arcy, Australian National University
13. An enslaved Enlightenment: rethinking the intellectual history of the French Atlantic:
Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
Part 4: Warfare and Governance
14. Violence in the Atlantic World: John Smolenski, University of California at Davis
15. War and Warfare in the Atlantic World: Geoffrey Plank, University of East Anglia
16. Political Thinking, Military Power and arms bearing in the British Atlantic World, c.
1640-c. 1868’: Charles Drummond, University of Cambridge
17. Atlantic Peripheries: Diplomacy, War and Spanish-French Interactions in Hispaniola,
1660s-1690s: Juan Ponce-Vazquez, St Lawrence University
Part 5: Religion
18. Catholicism: Eoin Devlin, University of Cambridge
19. Protestantism in the Atlantic World: Travis Glasson, Temple University
20. The Freest Country: Jews of the British Atlantic, ca. 1600-1800: Natalie A. Zacek,
University of Manchester
21. Islam and the Atlantic: Denise A. Spellberg, University of Texas, Austin
22. American Identity and English Catholicism in the Atlantic World: Maura Jane Farrelly,
Brandeis University
23. Navigating the Jewish Atlantic: Holly Snyder, Brown University
Part 6: Credit, Finance and Money
24. British Joint-Stock Companies and Atlantic Trading: Matthew David Mitchell, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
25. Speculating on the Atlantic World: Helen Paul, Southampton University
26. Paper Money: Dror Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
27. The Credit Crisis of 1772/3 in the Atlantic World: Paul Kosmetatos, University of
Cambridge
Part 7: Commerce, Consumption and Mercantile Networks
28. Reassessing the Atlantic contribution to British marine insurance: A. B. Leonard,
University of Cambridge
29. The Economic World of the early Dutch and English Atlantic: Edmond Smith, University
of Cambridge
30. The Cultural History of Commerce in the Atlantic World: Jonathan Eacott, University of
California at Riverside
31. "To Catch the Public Taste": Interpreting American Consumers in the Era of Atlantic
Free Trade, 1783-1854: Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University of London
Part 8: The Circulation of Ideas
32. "Excited almost to madness:" Slave Rebellions and Resistance in the Atlantic World:
Jeffrey A. Fortin, Emmanuel College
33. Economic Thought and State Practice in the Atlantic World: D’Maris Coffman,
University of Cambridge
34. The Classical Atlantic World: N. P. Cole, Oxford University
35. The Atlantic Enlightenment: William Max Nelson, University of Toronto