The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World: 1450-1850

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The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850 offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people plants pathogens products and cultural practices--to mention some of the key agents--around and within the Atlantic basin. As a result of these movements new peoples economies societies polities and cultures arose in the lands and islands touched by the Atlantic Ocean while others were destroyed.