Introduction to Transatlantic History

As an example of the “set-up” for our Bailyn discussion, here is a list of some recent books on the Atlantic, together with some classic texts mentioned by Bailyn.

1. David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick, The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
2. Kenneth Banks, Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic 1713-1763 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).
3. Paul Butel, The Atlantic (London: Routledge, 1999).
4. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Erik Seeman, (eds.) The Atlantic in Global History: 1500-2000 (Prentice Hall, 2006).
5. Huguette Chaunu and Pierre Chaunu, Séville et l’Atlantique: 1504-1650 (Paris: Sevpen, 1955).
6. Douglas R. Egerton et al., The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888 (Harlan Davidson, 2007).
7. David Eltis et al., ed., The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A database on CD-ROM, ed. David Eltis et al., Pap/Cdr. (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
8. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Harvard University Press, 1993).
9. Jacques Godechot, Histoire de l’Atlantique ([Paris]: Bordas, 1947).
10. David Hancock, Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
11. Franklin W. Knight and Peggy K. Liss, eds., Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, ed. Franklin W. Knight and Peggy K. Liss (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1991).
12. John McNeill, Atlantic empires of France and Spain : Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
13. David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick, The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
14. Kenneth Banks, Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic 1713-1763 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).
15. Paul Butel, The Atlantic (London: Routledge, 1999).
16. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Erik Seeman, (eds.) The Atlantic in Global History: 1500-2000 (Prentice Hall, 2006).
17. Huguette Chaunu and Pierre Chaunu, Séville et l’Atlantique: 1504-1650 (Paris: Sevpen, 1955).
18. Douglas R. Egerton et al., The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888 (Harlan Davidson, 2007).
19. David Eltis et al., ed., The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A database on CD-ROM, ed. David Eltis et al., Pap/Cdr. (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
20. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Harvard University Press, 1993).
21. Jacques Godechot, Histoire de l’Atlantique ([Paris]: Bordas, 1947).
22. David Hancock, Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
23. Franklin W. Knight and Peggy K. Liss, eds., Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, ed. Franklin W. Knight and Peggy K. Liss (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1991).
24. John McNeill, Atlantic empires of France and Spain : Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
25. R.R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 (Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1959).
26. Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina, Spain’s Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century, New Ed. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
27. Jacob Price, France and the Chesapeake a history of the French tobacco monopoly, 1674-1791, and of its relationship to the British and American tobacco trades (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973).
28. Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Beacon Press, 2005).
29. John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
30. Eric Williams, Capitalism And Slavery (Williams Press, 2007).