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Dutch ambassadors received by Garcia II, monarch of Kongo in West Central Africa in 1642. 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 1450–1500), including contact and conflict in the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands, as critical to the ...
Revolutions without Borders - the Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World is a 2015 history of the revolutions in the Atlantic world inspired by and fought in the immediate wake of the American and French Revolutions written by historian Janet Polasky.
The Atlantic Ocean which gives its name to the so-called Atlantic World of the early modern period. Atlantic history is a specialty field in history that studies the Atlantic World in the early modern period. The Atlantic World was created by the contact between Europeans and the Americas, and Atlantic History is the study of that world. [1]
Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World is a biography written by Jon F. Sensbach, a professor of history at the University of Florida.It follows the life of Rebecca Protten a slave and then freed woman of mixed white and African descent, who, while living on the island of St. Thomas during the 1730s, became part of the movement to convert slaves to Christianity.
The Atlantic Ocean excluding its Arctic and Antarctic regions. List of states and dependent territories with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean — including the North, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas — (dependent territories italicized with the sovereign state bracketed).
In 1995, Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott, edited by Richard L. Kagan and Geoffrey Parker, was published by Cambridge University Press. Elliott was hospitalised due to pneumonia and kidney complications, at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, on 5 March 2022. He died on 10 March, at the age of 91 ...
The Atlantic Revolutions (19 April 1775 – 4 December 1838) were numerous revolutions in the Atlantic World in the late 18th and early 19th century. Following the Age of Enlightenment , ideas critical of absolutist monarchies spread.
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km 2 (32,870,000 sq mi). [2] It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area.