The Atlantic in Global History is a collection of original essays by leading authors that both introduce the main themes of Atlantic history and expand the category of the Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically.
Moving away from the nation-state focused model of Atlantic history, this book emphasizes the comparisons among national experiences of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, by extending beyond the early modern period and into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it presents the continued analytical value of the Atlantic paradigm. Each chapter explores the events that formed the nations and cultures of the Atlantic region and examines the Atlantic's relationship with non-Atlantic communities.
This second edition is updated with a new introduction, which includes a section dedicated to developments in the field since the publication of the previous edition, and a new guide for instructors, with suggestions for classroom use. The volume's broad global and chronological coverage makes it an ideal book for students and lecturers of Atlantic History.
About the Author: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His award-winning books include How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (2001), Puritan Conquistadors (2006), and Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (2007). He is the editor of Entangled Histories, Severed Archives: The British and Iberian Atlantics, 1500-1800 (2017). He has also coedited The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade (2013) and the Princeton Handbook to Atlantic History (2014).
Erik R. Seeman, Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), is a historian of religion in the early modern Atlantic world. Seeman is the author of Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England (1999), Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 (2010), and The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America (2011). His current book project is Speaking with the Dead in the English Atlantic World.
