Bernard Bailyn's Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World promoted social and demographic studies, and especially regarding … See more

One impetus for Atlantic studies began in the 1960s with the historians of slavery who started tracking the routes of the transatlantic slave trade. A second source came from historians who studied the colonial history of the United States. Many were trained in … See more

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• Altman, Ida. Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. See more

Alison Games (2006) explores the convergence of the multiple strands of scholarly interest that have generated the new field of Atlantic … See more

Some critics have complained that Atlantic history is little more than imperial history under another name. It has been argued that it is too expansive in claiming to subsume both of the American continents, Africa, and Europe, without seriously engaging with … See more

1. ^ Bailyn, Bernard. 2005. Atlantic History : Concept and Contours. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005
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