ATLANTIC HISTORY
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The study of Atlantic History examines the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Through this lens, a wide range of national perspectives must be considered. Thus, there are consistently new discoveries, new interpretations, and new theoretical ideas to take into account. This task is made more difficult because a great deal of this work has moved online with the most recent scholarship and research appearing in online databases.
In Atlantic History, as in other fields, one of the most pressing challenges for research at all levels is managing the immense amount of scholarship and material available from journals, listservs, blogs, scholarly and reference works, and innumerable other sources. Today’s researchers can easily access library catalogs, bibliographic indexes, and countless lists that point to thousands of resources that might also be useful to them.
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We are at a critical moment in the academy where what is most needed is expert guidance. Researchers at all levels need tools that help them filter the sheer volume of information and sources to material that is reliable and directly relevant to their inquiries.
OBO is designed to provide authoritative guidance for researchers of all levels. In contrast to print bibliographies and electronic indexes that simply list citations, this innovative online tool will combine the best features of a high-level encyclopedia and the best features of a traditional bibliography put together in a style that responds to the way research is done online.
OBO offers more than other bibliography initiatives on- and offline by providing expert commentary to help students and scholars find, negotiate, and assess the large amount of information available to them. It facilitates research in a way that other guides cannot by providing direct links to online library catalogs and other online resources. It will become the first point of entry for any inquiry into topics in the field.
Trevor Burnard is Professor of the History of the Americas, History and Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick; has served as a fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The author of numerous books and scholarly articles, Dr. Burnard is interested in the history of early British America, including the British West Indies, and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, particularly slavery, social history and demography, imperialism, economic and business history, and gender.
- Douglas Bradburn, Binghamton University
- Matthew Childs, University of South Carolina
- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
- Robert DuPlessis, Swarthmore College
- Kathleen DuVall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Michael Guasco, Davidson College
- Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of California, Davis
- Mark Knights, University of Warwick
- Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
- Ken MacMillan, University of Calgary
- Roderick McDonald, Rider University
- John Monteiro, UNICAMP, Brazil
- Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University
- David Northrup, Boston College
- Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan
- Carla Pestana, Miami University of Ohio
- Geoffrey Plank, University of Cincinnati
- Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington
- Allan Potofsky, Université de Paris VIII
- Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université de Paris VIII
- Abolition of Slavery
- Africa and the Atlantic World
- African Religion and Culture
- American Revolution
- Atlantic Slave Trade
- Atlantic Slavery
- Atlantic Trade and the British Economy
- Black Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions
- Borderlands
- British Atlantic World
- Catholicism
- Colonization of English America
- Continental America
- Creolization
- Domestic Production and Consumption
- Early Modern Spain
- Economy and Consumption
- Emancipation
- Enlightenment
- Environment and the Natural World
- Evangelicalism and Conversion
- Fiscal-Military State
- Free People of Color
- French Atlantic World
- Gender
- Haitian Revolution
- Hanoverian Britain
- History of Science
- Iberian Atlantic World, 1600-1800
- Iberian Empires, 1600-1800
- The Idea of Atlantic History
- Ideas of Race
- Ideologies of Colonization
- Literature and Culture
- Marriage and Family
- Material Culture
- Oceanic History
- Piracy
- Pre-contact America
- Protestantism
- Religion
- Seven Years’ War
- Sex and sexuality
- Ships and Shipping
- Origins of Slavery
- Sovereignty and the Law
- Spanish Colonization to 1650
- Tudor Stuart Britain and the Wider World, 1485-1685
- Violence
- Warfare
“For a field as vast as Atlantic history, where no one person can expect to be a general expert, a selective and opinionated bibliography – one that is continually updated – is particularly important. Indeed, I am hard-pressed to think of any field in which such an undertaking would be more valuable. It would certainly be useful in my own area of research, and I can imagine turning to it quite frequently, both for my research and also for my teaching.”
–François Furstenberg, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation Chair in American Studies, Université de Montréal
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