The Atlantic World : Essays on Slavery, Migration and Imagination

Padula, Alfred, Klooster, Wim

ISBN 10: 0131839152 / ISBN 13: 9780131839151

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2004

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Synopsis:

For undergraduate/graduate courses in Colonial American History.

This original text brings together four pairs of essays that examine the themes of slavery, migration, and imagination in the Atlantic World from 1500-1800. Offering all the advantages of an Atlantic approach, it explores major historical topics and the manifold connections between the Old World and the New in the early modern period. With essays by such authoritative scholars as David Eltis, Paul Lovejoy, Benjamin Schmidt, and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, The Atlantic World is an important new book for the colonial American history course.

About the Author:

Wim Klooster is an Assistant Professor of History at Clark University. He has held fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, and the National University of Ireland. His publications include The etch in the Americas, 1600-1800 (Providence, RI, 1997) and Illicit Riches. Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 (Leiden, 1998). The working title of his current book project is The Dutch in the Atlantic World: Expansion and Contraction in the Golden Age.

Alfred Padula began his professional career as a servitor of the Cold War, first in Naval Intelligence and thereafter in the State Department. His work as Cuban analyst precipitated a lifelong interest in that country. Receipt of a Ford Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Revolutions led him into academia, specifically at the University of Southern Maine (USM) in the seaport city of Portland, where he could also indulge his interests as a small boat sailor. At USM, Professor Padula taught Latin American history, and produced numerous papers, reviews, and articles on Cuban issues, climaxing in a volume on women and the Cuban revolution: Sex and Revolution. Women in Socialist Cuba (Oxford, 1995).

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Atlantic World : Essays on Slavery, ...
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good