Soundings in Atlantic History

Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830

Edited by Bernard Bailyn

Edited by Patricia L. Denault

    • List of Illustrations
    • Introduction: Reflections on Some Major Themes
      Bernard Bailyn
    1. Ecology, Seasonality, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
      Stephen D. Behrendt
    2. Kongo and Dahomey, 1660–1815: African Political Leadership in the Era of the Slave Trade and Its Impact on the Formation of African Identity in Brazil
      Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton
    3. The Triumphs of Mercury: Connection and Controlin the Emerging Atlantic Economy
      David J. Hancock
    4. Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600–1800
      Willem Klooster
    5. Procurators and the Making of the Jesuits’ Atlantic Network
      J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna
    6. Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660–1710
      Rosalind J. Beiler
    7. Typology in the Atlantic World: Early Modern Readings of Colonization
      Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
    8. A Courier between Empires: Hipólito da Costa and the Atlantic World
      Neil Safier
    9. Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
      Londa Schiebinger
    10. Theopolis Americana: The City-State of Boston, the Republic of Letters, and the Protestant International, 1689–1739
      Mark A. Peterson
    11. The Río de la Plata and Anglo-American Political and Social Models 1810–1827
      Beatriz Dávilo
    12. The Atlantic Worlds of David Hume
      Emma Rothschild
    • Notes
    • List of Contributors
    • Index
  • Cover: Soundings in Atlantic History
  • A photo of the author

Photo of Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes) and The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (National Book Award), both published by Harvard.

Patricia L. Denault is the former Administrative Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World and of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University