Description: Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction, these essays include analyses of the climate and ecology underlying the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of Hume.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: With their emphasis on networks--economic, ecological, migratory, commercial, religious, intellectual, ideological--the wide-ranging essays in this book invite a host of new and exciting questions in Atlantic history. They reframe the Atlantic, offering new models to explain relationships in several ways: between Europe, Africa, and the Americas; between the political hearts of empires and the territories and subjects they sought to govern; and between empires and states. This volume is a feast for the imagination that will be valuable for both scholars and non-specialists.--Alison Games, Georgetown University