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Minor Field Reading List
Methodology
Armitage, David and Michael J. Braddick, Editors. The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800.
New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Bailyn, Bernard, Atlantic History: Concept and Contours . Cambridge, MA and London:
Harvard University Press, 2005.
Canny, Nicholas. “Writing Atlantic History; or Reconfiguring the History of Colonial British
America.”
The Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 3, December 1999: 1093-1114.
Coclanis, Peter. “Atlantic World or Atlantic/World?”
William and Mary Quarterly 2006 63(4):
725-742.
Hatfield, April Lee. Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century .
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Reinhardt, Steven G. and Dennis Reinhartz, Editors. Transatlantic History . College Station:
Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2006.
Exploration and Settlement
Boucher, Philip P. “Why Island Caribs “Loved” the French and “Hated” the English.”
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society 1993 18: 36-45.
Carney, Judith A. “African Rice in the Columbian Exchange.”
Journal of African History 2001
42(3): 377-396.
Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 .
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the
Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1987.
Parry, J.H. The Spanish Seaborne Empire. 1966; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Sandberg, Brian. “Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, and Violence in the Early Modern
Atlantic World, 1492-1700.” Journal of World History 2006 17(1): 1-25.
Seed, Patricia. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 .
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Wilson, Samuel M. “The Cultural Mosaic of the Indigenous Caribbean.” Proceedings of the
British Academy 1993 81: 37-66.
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Empire, War, and Trade
Benton, Lauren. “Legal Spaces of Empire: Piracy and the Origins of Ocean Regionalism.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History , 2005 47(4): 700-724.
Black, Jeremy. The British Seaborne Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Boxer, C.R. The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800.
London: Hutchinson, 1965.
______. The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825. Second Edition. 1969; Manchester:
Carcanet, 1991.
Bromley, J.S. Corsairs and Navies, 1660-1760.
London: Hambledon, 1987.
Elliot, John Huxtable. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Hancock, David. Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Intergration of the British
Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 . Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
_______. “‘A World of Business to Do’: William Freeman and the Foundations of England’s
Commercial Empire, 1645-1707.” The William and Mary Quarterly, 2000, 3 rd
Ser., 57(1): 3-34.
Lane, Kris E. Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
_______. “Punishing the Sea Wolf: Corsairs and Cannibals in the Early Modern Caribbean.”
NWIG: New West Indian Guide-Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 2003 77(3- 4): 201-220.
Morales-Carrión, Arturo. Puerto Rico and the Non Hispanic Caribbean: A Study in the Decline of Spanish Exclusivism.
1952; Barcelona, Spain: University of Puerto Rico, 1974.
Pares, Richard. War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739-1763. Oxford, At the Clarendon Press,
1936.
Pennel, C.R., Editor. Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader. New York and London: New York
University Press, 2001.
Rediker, Marcus, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Piracy in the Golden Age. Boston, Beacon
Press, 2004.
Swanson, Carl E. “American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748.”
William and Mary
Quarterly 1998 42(3): 357-382.
Westergaard, Waldemar. The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule, 1671-1754, With A
Supplementary Chapter, 1755-1917. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917.
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Woodfine, Philip. “‘Suspicious Latitudes’”: Commerce, Colonies and Patriotism in the 1730s.”
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 1998 27: 25-52.
The Rise and Fall of Slave Societies
Brown, Christopher. “Empire Without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution.” William And Mary Quarterly, 1999 56(2): 273-306.
Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller. “Women in Western Systems of
Slavery: Introduction.”
Slavery and Abolition, 2005 26(2): 161-179.
Craton, Michael. Empire, Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian
Randle Publishers, 1997.
Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History.
Second Edition. 1990; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French
Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Dunn, Richard. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies,
1624-1713.
1972; Chapel Hill and London: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina
Press, 2000.
Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000.
Fick, Carolyn E. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville:
The University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
Gaspar, David Barry. Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua.
1985; Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005.
Gaspar, David Barry and David Patrick Geggus. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Gaspar, David Barry and Darlene Clark Hine, Editors. More than Chattel: Black Women and
Slavery in the Americas. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996.
______. Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas . Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 2004.
Geggus, David Patrick. Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint
Domingue, 1793-1798. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Goveia, V. Elsa. Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth
Century.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
Harms, Robert. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York:
Basic Books, 2002.
James, C.L. R.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.
Second Edition, Revised. 1963; New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc.,
1989.
Jennings, Lawrence C. French Reaction to British Slave Emancipation. Baton Rouge and
London: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1986.
Lazarus-Black, Mindie. “Slaves, Masters, and Magistrates: Law and the Politics of Resistance in the English-Speaking Caribbean, 1736-1834.” ABF Working Paper #9124, University of Illinois at Chicago, American Bar Foundation, 1992.
Menard, Russell R. Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early
Barbados . Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
Miller, Joseph. “A Theme in Variations: A Historical Schema of Slaving in the Atlantic and
Indian Ocean Regions.”
Slavery and Abolition, 2003 24(2): 169-196.
Mintz, Sidney W. and Richard Price. The Birth of African-American Culture: An
Anthropological Perspective. 1976; Boston: Beacon Press, 1992
Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1982.
Pritchard, James. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Santiago-Valles, Kelvin. “World Historical Ties Among “Spontaneous” Slave Rebellions in the
Atlantic,”
Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 2005 28(1): 51-83.
Shepherd, Verene and Hilary McD. Beckles, Editors. Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World:
A Student Reader. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2000.
Stein, Robert Louis. The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge and
London: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. Second
Edition. 1992; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Watson, Alan. Slave Laws in the Americas. Athens and London: The University of Georgia
Press, 1989.
Williams-Myers, A.J. “Slavery, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Americas: A Historiographical
Scenario on the Theses of Genovese and Others.” Journal of Black Studies, 1996 26(4): 381-
400.
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