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This original book assembles four pairs of essays and four themes of Atlantic history. Offering all the advantages of an Atlantic approach, it explores major historical topics and the manifold connections between the Old World and the New in the early modern period.A four-part organization covers the role of specific port cities in Atlantic history; European migration; the African dimension; and ways in which the Atlantic world has been imagined.For an understanding of the continuous flow of people, commodities, and ideas present in the Atlantic basin in the wake of the Columbus voyages.

Wim Klooster is an Assistant Professor of History at Clark University. He has held fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, and the National University of Ireland. His publications include The etch in the Americas, 1600-1800 (Providence, RI, 1997) and Illicit Riches. Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 (Leiden, 1998). The working title of his current book project is The Dutch in the Atlantic World: Expansion and Contraction in the Golden Age.

Alfred Padula began his professional career as a servitor of the Cold War, first in Naval Intelligence and thereafter in the State Department. His work as Cuban analyst precipitated a lifelong interest in that country. Receipt of a Ford Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Revolutions led him into academia, specifically at the University of Southern Maine (USM) in the seaport city of Portland, where he could also indulge his interests as a small boat sailor. At USM, Professor Padula taught Latin American history, and produced numerous papers, reviews, and articles on Cuban issues, climaxing in a volume on women and the Cuban revolution: Sex and Revolution. Women in Socialist Cuba (Oxford, 1995).

Introduction
The Rise and Transformation of the Atlantic World
Perspectives
Life on the Margins: Boston's Anxieties of Influence in the Atlantic World
Lisbon as a Strategic Haven in the Atlantic World
European Migration
Adventurers Across the Atlantic: English Migration to the New World, 1580-1780
Searching for Prosperity: German Migration to the British American Colonies, 1680-1780
The African Dimension
Identity and Migration: The Atlantic in Comparative Perspective
Trans-Atlantic Transformations: The Origins and Identity of Africans in the Americas
IMagination
Whose Centers and Peripheries? Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History in Atlantic Perspective
The Purpose of Pirates, or Assimilating New Worlds in the Renaissance
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This book began its life as a lecture series that we convened at the University of Southern Maine in the academic year 2000-2001. We paired scholars in the same subfield of Atlantic history on four occasions and asked them to transform their presentations into book chapters. These chapters shed light on the manifold connections between the Old World and the New in the early modern period. The first set of essays looks at the role of specific port cities in Atlantic history. Subsequent sections explore European migration, the African dimension, and the ways in which the Atlantic world has been imagined.We would like to thank Dorothy Rosene for bringing us in touch with Prentice Hall, and Charles Lavaliere, the History editor at Prentice Hall, for his enthusiasm for the book project. We are also grateful to Patricia Finn for her tireless administrative support, and George Carhart and Yolanda Theunissen of the Osher Map Library for their assistance in the selection of illustrations. Thanks are also due to the reviewers of the manuscript for their useful remarks: Ida Altman (University of New Orleans), Gayle Brunelle (California State University, Fullerton), Nicholas Canny (National University of Ireland, Galway), Graciella Cruz-Taura (Florida Atlantic University), Alison Games (Georgetown University), and John Thornton (Boston University). Wim Klooster Alfred Padula

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