Europeans Engaging the Atlantic – Knowledge and Trade, 1500 1800 - Softcover

Lachenicht, Susanne

 
9783593501703: Europeans Engaging the Atlantic – Knowledge and Trade, 1500 1800

Synopsis

Europeans Engaging the Atlantic offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and also on trade and commerce with it. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans made sense of the Atlantic world, and how they tried to connect with Atlantic trade and commerce. Featuring case studies that discuss these issues from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume explores both the degree to which the Atlantic was (or was not) part of the European worldview-or just one part of a worldview with many centers of interest-and how European engagement with the Atlantic world evolved.

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About the Author

Susanne Lachenicht is professor of early modern history at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She is coeditor of Diaspora Identities: Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present, also published by Campus Verlag.

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