Scandinavia in the Atlantic World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11876468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klas Rönnbäck (0000-0003-1347-0004, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.669 |
| OpenAlex | W2887142919 |
| ISBN | 9780199366439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
The Scandinavian countries established overseas settlements in Africa and the Americas, starting in the 17th century. In Africa, trading stations were initially established with the consent of local rulers. The Danish trading stations on the Gold Coast developed in time into a more formal colony. In the Americas, Scandinavian settlements were of various natures, including the short-lived settlement colony of New Sweden and slavery-based plantation societies in the Caribbean. The Caribbean colonies would bear resemblance to many other Caribbean plantation economies of the time. The Scandinavian countries also participated in the transatlantic slave trade: while these countries might have been responsible for a quite small share of the total transatlantic slave trade, the trade was large compared to the size of the domestic population in these countries. The formal abolition of the slave trade, and later of slavery, in the Scandinavian colonies made the colonial possessions unimportant or even burdens for the Scandinavian states, so that the colonies eventually were sold to other European nations
Ancient history · Archaeology · Atlantic slave trade · Atlantic World · Colonialism · Danish · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Fur trade · Geography · Human settlement · Political science · Population · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |