Bridging the early modern Atlantic world people, products, and practices on the move /

• Other Authors: Williams, Caroline, 1962-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
• Subjects: History, Modern.; Acculturation > History. > Atlantic Ocean Region; Culture conflict > History. > Atlantic Ocean Region; Acculturation.; Culture conflict.; HISTORY > World.; Atlantic Ocean Region > History.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 261 p.) : ill., maps.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-250) and index.
• ISBN: 9780754694670 (electronic bk.); 0754694674 (electronic bk.)

Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten essays exploring the outcomes of the intermingling of people, circulation of goods, and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland to the end of the wars of independence in Spanish South America, the contributors direct particular attention to regions, communities, and groups whose activities in, and responses to, an ever-more closely bound Atlantic world remain under-represented in the literature. All share a central concern to expl.