The Creation of the British Atlantic World (Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780801880391
Subjects: American history; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Great Britain; Colonies; History - General History; United States; History: World; British Isles; Europe; The Americas; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; United States - Colonial Period; World - Colonial Studies; History / Europe / General; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; History-United States - Colonial Period; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Europe - General; America
First sentence: Without minimizing the tragic consequences of the Middle Passage or blurring the fundamental distinction between free and coerced migrations, there is value to comparing white and black migrations to North America and the Caribbean.