Building the British Atlantic world : spaces places and material culture 1600 1850 Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity gender taste domesticity politics and race the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built occupied and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World