Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World By John D. Garrigus (editor), Christopher Morris (editor)
2010 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1603441921 | PDF | 2 MB
With the recent election of the nation's first African American president-an individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formative years in Hawaii and Indonesia-the topic of transnational identity is reaching the forefront of the national consciousness in an unprecedented way. As our society becomes increasingly diverse and intermingled, it is increasingly imperative to understand how race and heritage impact our perceptions of and interactions with each other. Assumed Identities constitutes an important step in this direction.However, "identity is a slippery concept," say the editors of this instructive volume. This is nowhere more true than in the melting pot of the early trans-Atlantic cultures formed in the colonial New World during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. As the studies in this volume show, during this period in the trans-Atlantic world individuals and groups fashioned their identities but also had identities ascribed to them by surrounding societies. The historians who have contributed to this volume investigate these processes of multiple identity formation, as well as contemporary understandings of them.Originating in the 2007 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures presented at the University of Texas at Arlington, Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World examines, among other topics, perceptions of racial identity in the Chesapeake community, in Brazil, and in Saint-Domingue (colonial-era Haiti). As the contributors demonstrate, the cultures in which these studies are sited helped define the subjects' self-perceptions and the ways others related to them.

Lars Maischak, "German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic "
English | ISBN: 1107017297 | 2013 | 315 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This study brings to life the community of trans-Atlantic merchants who established strong economic, political, and cultural ties between the United States and the city-republic of Bremen, Germany in the nineteenth century. Lars Maischak shows that the success of Bremen's merchants in helping make an industrial-capitalist world market created the conditions of their ultimate undoing: the new economy of industrial capitalism gave rise to democracy and the nation-state, undermining the political and economic power of this mercantile elite. Maischak argues that the experience of Bremen's merchants is representative of the transformation of the role of merchant capital in the first wave of globalization, with implications for our understanding of modern capitalism, in general.

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

Mary Ellen Riddle, "Outer Banks Shipwrecks: Graveyard of the Atlantic "
English | ISBN: 1467124109 | 2017 | 128 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Weather, geography, war, piracy, and human error have all contributed to this dense shipwreck zone.

Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory by Ted Barris
English | September 20, 2022 | ISBN: 1443460796 | 457 pages | PDF (Converted) | 14 Mb
The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada's longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navy

Atlantic Crossing in the Wake of Frederick Douglass: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture By Mark Leone (editor)
2017 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 9004342907 | PDF | 5 MB
In Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass, edited by Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins, twelve chapters on archaeology, literature, and spatial culture explore crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture.

Tomas Carragain, Sam Turner, "Making Christian Landscapes in Atlantic Europe: Conversion and Consolidation in the Early Middle Ages"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1782052003 | PDF | pages: 654 | 111.0 mb
Landscapes across Europe were transformed, both physically and conceptually, during the early medieval period (c AD 400-1200), and these changes were bound up with the conversion to Christianity and the development of ecclesiastical power structures. While Christianity represented a more or less common set of beliefs and ideas, early medieval societies were characterized by vibrant diversity: much can potentially be learned about these societies by comparing and contrasting how they adapted Christianity to suit local circumstances. This is the first book to adopt a comparative landscape approach to this crucial subject.

Magnus Petersson, "NATO and the Crisis in the International Order: The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies"
English | 2018 | pages: 98 | ISBN: 081536038X | PDF | 0,9 mb
The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges.

Joseph C. Miller, "The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History"
English | ISBN: 0691148538 | 2015 | EPUB/PDF | 568 pages | 7 MB/70 MB
The first encyclopedic reference to Atlantic history

The Atlantic - December 2022
English | 120 pages | True PDF | 22.5 MB