The best books on Atlantic History recommended by Bernard Bailyn. Harvard professor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn recommends reading on three centuries of empire, conflict and slave trading between the Americas, Europe and Africa. Interview by Eve Gerber.
Essays from 2001 that demonstrate the potential of the Atlantic approach to the study of history and that were intended to inform similar studies of the Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch empires, but that touch only tangentially on Native American topics. Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.Bailyn here was alluding to his latest contribution to American history. Since the 1990s (and arguably much earlier) he has championed Atlantic history, most notably by leading the recently defunct international Atlantic seminar at Harvard. Several essays in the new collection reflect his commitment to an Atlantic approach.Atlantic history is a newly and rapidly developing field of historical study. Bringing together elements of early modern European, African, and American history--their common, comparative, and interactive aspects--Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western civilization, from the first contacts of Europe with the Western Hemisphere to the independence movements and the globalizing.
Jews and the Atlantic World: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Review Essay Jews and the Atlantic World: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Review Essay Lerner, Saul. 2010-04-09 00:00:00 Jews and the Atlantic World: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Review Essay Department of History and Political Science Purdue University Calumet Atlantic History: Concept and Contours, by Bernard Bailyn.
The Atlantic World. Clearly these pieces build on work that produced Voyagers to the West, but that work is itself part of a still larger, unfinished formulation, and so we must steal a glimpse into Bailyn's new Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005). Here is a subject of staggering proportions and immense implications for the history.
Under the influence of the burgeoning subject of Atlantic history, which Bailyn’s International Seminar on the Atlantic World greatly encouraged, the boundaries of the colonial period of America.
In an essay from The William and Mary Quarterly (2001) reflecting on the then new Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Bailyn argues that historians must be careful not to let the emotional.
As the back cover of Bernard Bailyn’s book, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, suggests, the book discusses the foundations and original principles of the American Revolution. It is indisputable significance in the literature of the area of American Revolution and American History can easily be seen from the awards the book received.
Bernard Bailyn's American Atlantic.. This essay argues for a reframed Atlantic history that abandons the concept of the “Atlantic World.” Though bold and creative, the Atlantic World.
Essay on The Atlantic World. Length: 784 words (2.2 double-spaced pages). To understand the historiography of Atlantic migration, the obvious place to start is with Bernard Bailyn, and his book Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.. As Atlantic history entered the 1990’s there was a.
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In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society.
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David Eltis begins his essay on the Atlantic slave trade by emphasizing that,. For an overview of their work, see Bernard Bailyn, “The Idea of Atlantic History,” in Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005), 3-30.
This essay explores the evolution of the study of the British-American Empire in the last 50 years, concluding with some comments on the state of current historiography and some speculation on where it might be heading. It contends that the “new social history” permitted colonial America to be studied in unprecedented depth, but also caused a “fragmentation” of our understanding of the.
About The Peopling of British North America. In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society.
BAILYN: Well, I'm not in regular classroom work, but I'm running an international seminar on Atlantic history, which brings in people -- young historians from all of the areas surrounding the Atlantic basin, Western Europe, West Africa, Latin America and North America, coming together in groups to discuss the interactive history of the Atlantic.