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