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Atlantic Ocean : the illustrated history of the ocean that changed the world

Call Number

  • 909.09821 S2178 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Sterling ; Lewes : GMC Distribution [distributor], 2008.

Physical Description

xi, 468 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Contents

  • The Atlantic : the sea of darkness
  • Exploration and discovery : Europeans encounter a New World
  • Impact of the New World : European and Native American cultures collide
  • Colonization : settling a New World
  • Slavery : inhuman bondage
  • The American Revolution : cutting ties across the Atlantic
  • The impact of the American Revolution : a new model for government
  • The Industrial Revolution : mechanization and the Atlantic world
  • New ships, new commerce : a new age of Atlantic trade
  • The great tide of immigration : a historic transfer of cultures
  • The Atlantic world confirmed : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries..

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Dennis Reinhartz

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