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Atlantic Ocean : the illustrated history of the ocean that changed the world / Martin W. Sandler ; foreword by Dennis Reinhartz.

By: Publication details: New York : Sterling, c2008.Description: xi, 468 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9781402747243 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.46/13 22
LOC classification:
  • CB465 .S26 2008
Contents:
The Atlantic : the sea of darkness -- Exploration and discovery : Europeans encounter a new world -- Impact of the new world : European and Native American cultures collide -- Colonization : settling a new world -- Slavery : inhuman bondage -- The American Revolution : cutting ties across the Atlantic -- The impact of the American Revolution : a new model for government -- The Industrial Revolution : mechanization and the Atlantic world -- New ships, new commerce : a new age of Atlantic trade -- The great tide of immigration : a historic transfer of cultures -- The Atlantic world confirmed : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Atlantic : the sea of darkness -- Exploration and discovery : Europeans encounter a new world -- Impact of the new world : European and Native American cultures collide -- Colonization : settling a new world -- Slavery : inhuman bondage -- The American Revolution : cutting ties across the Atlantic -- The impact of the American Revolution : a new model for government -- The Industrial Revolution : mechanization and the Atlantic world -- New ships, new commerce : a new age of Atlantic trade -- The great tide of immigration : a historic transfer of cultures -- The Atlantic world confirmed : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-459) and index.

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