History

Atlantic and caribbean perspectives: Analyzing a hybrid and entangled world

Document Type

Book Chapter

Abstract

How has a thalassographic prism enabled new approaches in the historiography of the Atlantic world? In order to answer this question, I delve into the writing of Atlantic history since its coming of age in the last two decades. I distinguish five different ways to write Atlantic history: one school stresses agency, another adaptation, a third privileges comparisons , a fourth entanglement, and a fifth studies networks.

Publication Title

The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography

Publication Date

2013

First Page

60

Last Page

83

ISBN

9780472029013

DOI

10.3998/mpub.4843903

Keywords

Atlantic world, Caribbean

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