Experiments in modernity: the making of the atlantic world economy
‘The Atlantic was a European invention’, declared David Armitage in his opening chapter of the 2002 edited collection The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800. He argued that Europeans were the first to connect the four sides of the Atlantic into a single entity, both as a natural place, and as a syste...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Digital de la UPF |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/59051 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137432728_1 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Eighteenth century Economic history Sugar production World history Terra firma |
| Sumario: | ‘The Atlantic was a European invention’, declared David Armitage in his opening chapter of the 2002 edited collection The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800. He argued that Europeans were the first to connect the four sides of the Atlantic into a single entity, both as a natural place, and as a system. Echoing Braudel, he explained how they ‘integrated’ disparate physical parts to ‘invent’ a geography, one in which most of the action happened on land, but which was bestowed an identity based on the ocean — itself a contemporary unification — which links together its components on terra firma. |
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