Soundings in Atlantic history : latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500-1830 / edited by Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-609) and index.

Introduction: Reflections on some major themes / Bernard Bailyn -- Ecology, seasonality, and the transatlantic slave trade / Stephen D. Behrendt -- Kongo and Dahomey, 1660-1815 : African political leadership in the era of the slave trade and its impact on the formation of African identity in Brazil / Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton -- The triumphs of Mercury : connection and control in the emerging Atlantic economy / David J. Hancock -- Inter-imperial smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 / Wim Klooster -- Procurators and the making of the Jesuits' Atlantic network / J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna -- Dissenting religious communication networks and European migration, 1660-1710 / Rosalind J. Beiler -- Typology in the Atlantic world : early modern readings of colonization / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- A courier between empires : Hipólito da Costa and the Atlantic world / Neil Safier -- Scientific exchange in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Londa Schiebinger -- Theopolis Americana : the city-state of Boston, the republic of letters, and the Protestant international, 1689-1739 / Mark A. Peterson -- The Río de la Plata and Anglo-American political and social models, 1810-1827 / Beatriz Dávilo -- The Atlantic worlds of David Hume / Emma Rothschild.

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Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, these innovative essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, as well as the inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and the awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of David Hume.

In English.

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