The atlantic ocean and the interactions between the continents that make up the atlantic rim, north america, south america, africa, and europe, have all figured largely into the history of both the united states. The major challenges to historical research revolve around the problems of sources, knowledge, explanation, objectivity, choice of subject, and the peculiar problems of contemporary history. Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the major problems series introduces students. University of nevada, las vegas stephen kent amerman southern connecticut state university 4 cengage learning. The making of an atlantic world slavery and remembrance. Given the scope of atlantic history it has tended to downplay the singular influence of the voyages of columbus and to focus more on growing interactions among african and european polities ca 14501500, including contact and conflict in the mediterranean and atlantic islands, as critical to the emergence of the atlantic world. Nook magazines nook newspapers all nook periodicals top free trials special issues. Major problems in mexican american history major problems in american history series by zaragosa vargas 1999 major problems in african american history, vol. Click download or read online button to get major problems in atlantic history book now. From slavery to freedom, 16191877 documents and essays by thomas c. The atlantic world was created by the discovery of a new land by europeans, and atlantic history is the study of that world. Find 9780618611140 major problems in atlantic history. This first volume of great issues in american history three volumes of documents that cover the history of america from its settlement to the present gives us a generous sampling from the major political controversies in the colonial period.
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Major problems in atlantic history documents and essays. The idea of atlantic history atlantic history oxford. Major problems in atlantic history covers the history and evolution of this area, with special attention to such topics as the origins of the atlantic world, migrations throughout the atlantic world, european interactions, atlantic economies, slavery, and independence. Firstly, the connections across this oceanic basinconnections which emerged most visibly during the early modern periodjustify using the atlantic as a meaningful unit of historical analysis. Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the major problems series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in us history. Atlantic history in global perspective cambridge core. At the constitutional convention in 1787, delegates fiercely debated the issue of slavery. How did trade and beliefs about land affect the native american economies.
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