Atlantic History
David Northrup
General
Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. Harvard, 2005.
Coclanis, Peter. “Drang nach Osten: Bernard Bailyn, the World Island, and the
Idea of Atlantic History.” Journal of World History 13 (2002): 169-82.
Games, Alison. “Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities.” American
Historical Review. 111 (June 2006): 741-57.
Games, Alison, et al., “Forum: Beyond the Atlantic.” The William and Mary Quarterly.
63 (October 2006): 675-742.
Klooster, Wim and Alfred Padula, eds., The Atlantic World. Prentice-Hall, 2005.
Pietschmann, Horst, ed. Atlantic History: History of the Atlantic System, 1580-1830.
Göttingen, 2002.
Americas
Axtell, James. Natives and Newcomers: Cultural Origins of North America.OUP, 2001.
Daniels, C. and M. Kennedy, eds. Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the
Americas, 1500-1820. Routledge, 2002.
Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French
Caribbean, 1787-1804. North Carolina, 2004.
Dubois, Laurent & John D. Garrigus, eds. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789-1804.
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. The Americas: A Hemispheric History. Modern Library,
2003.
Gaspar, D. and D. Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the
Greater Caribbean. Indiana, 1997.
Geggus, David, ed. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. South
Carolina, 2001.
Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets & Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s
Slaves. Houghton-Mifflin, 2005.
Restall, Matthew. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. OUP, 2003.
Schwartz, Stuart. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World,
1450-1680. North Carolina, 2004.
Sweet, David G. and Gary B. Nash, eds. Struggle & Survival in Colonial America.
University of California, 1981.
Sully, Pamela and Diana Paton, eds. Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic
World. Duke, 2005.
Williams, Eric. From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean. Vintage, 1984.
Europe
Applebaum, Robert and John Wood Sweet, eds. Envisioning an Atlantic Empire:
Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. U. Penn, 2005.
Armitage, David and Michael J. Braddock, eds. The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Drescher, Seymore. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British
Emancipation. OUP, 2002.
Elliott, John, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830.
Yale, 2006.
Games, Alison. Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World. Harvard, 1999.
Hornsby, Stephen J. British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early
Modern British America. 2005.
Klooster, Wim. The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800. Providence, 1997.
Nugent, Walter. Crossings: Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914. Indiana, 1995.
Pestina, Carla Gardina. The English Atlantic in the Age of Revolution, 1640-1661.
Harvard, 2004.
Russell-Wood, A. J. R. The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808. Johns Hopkins, 1998.
Seed, Patricia. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World,
1492-1640. CUP, 1995
Africa
Conniff, Michael and Thomas Davis. Africans in the Americas: A History of Black
Diaspora. Blackburn, 2002.
Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
OUP, 2006.
Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. CUP, 2000.
Eltis, David and Philip Morgan, eds. New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade,
2001. (Special issue of The William and Mary Quarterly, third series, vol. 57 [2001].)
Gomez, Michael. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora. CUP, 2005.
Harms, Robert. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Basic,
2002.
Heywood, Linda. ed. Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American
Disapora. CUP, 2002.
Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. CUP, 1999.
Law, Robin. Ouidah: the Social History of a West African Slaving ‘Port’, 1727-1892.
Ohio UP, 2004.
Lovejoy, Paul E. Transformations in Slavery, 2d ed. CUP, 2001.
Mann, Kristin and Edna Bay, eds. Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a
Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil. Frank Cass, 2001. (Special Issue
of Slavery and Abolition, 22.1 [2001].)
Manning, Patrick. “Africa and the African Diaspora: New Directions of Study.” Journal
of African History 44 (2003): 487-506.
Manning, Patrick, ed. Slave Trades, 1500-1800: Globalization of Forced Labour. 1996.
Meriweather, James. Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa,
1935-1961. North Carolina, 2002.
Morgan, P. and S. Hawkins, eds. Black Experience of Empire. OUP, 2004
Northrup, David. Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. OUP, 2002.
Northrup, David. Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965. Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2007.
Sundiata, Ibrahim. Brothers & Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940. Duke,
2002.
Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800.
CUP, 1998.
Williams, Eric. Capitalism & Slavery, UNC, 1994.