Description:
This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America, and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective. This collection of individual essays provides an accessible overview of essential themes, such as the state, empire, migration, the economy, religion, race, class, gender, politics, and slavery. This new and revised edition brings this text up to date with recent work in the field of Atlantic history and extends its scope to cover themes not treated in the first edition, notably the history of science and global history. Placing the British Atlantic world in imperial and global contexts, this book offers an indispensable survey of one of the liveliest fields of current historical enquiry.
This text is a primary resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of History, particularly those taking modules on Early Modern British History, Colonial American History, Early American History, Caribbean History, Atlantic History and World History. Together, the essays also provide a useful starting point for researchers in British, American, imperial and Atlantic history. New to this Edition:- Updated and expanded to take account of new research
- Two new essays treating 'Science' and 'The British Atlantic World in Global Perspective'
- Timeline of British Atlantic history
- A revised Introduction and updated guides to further reading
Brief description: MICHAEL BRADDICK is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Review Quotes: ""The British Atlantic World" will retain its leading place in the field in the wake of this new edition, and will remain an essential starting-point for undergraduate readers. It is still the only work that provides through its individual essays a readily accessible, well-conceived thematic overview."
-- Keith Mason, University of Liverpool, UK "[T]he contributors have produced insightful overviews of topics deemed central to any serious investigation of Atlantic history." --Kathleen Wilson, SUNY Stony Brook