The British Atlantic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23723797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trevor Burnard (0000-0002-6514-9733, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 111-136 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Atlantic history (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195320336.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W259267739 |
| ISBN | 9780195320336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
That the Atlantic from the fifteenth century to the present has been more than just an ocean, that it has also been a particular zone of exchange and interchange, circulation and transmission, is not only true, in the sense that these exchanges and interchanges shaped life on four continents over a very long period of time. It is also a conceptual leap forward, allowing historians to make links among places, peoples, and periods that enrich our under- standing about how societies were formed. The receptiveness of colonial British Americanists to Atlantic history can be seen in the titles of recent books, the enthusiasm for conferences incorporating an Atlantic theme, the reorientation of research institutes with an early British American focus toward Atlantic studies, and the proliferation of courses on aspects of Atlantic history. But Atlantic history also has limitations. Those limitations, increasingly apparent, have the potential to limit the usefulness of the Atlantic perspective as an exciting historical frame of reference.
Geography · Geology · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Oceanography
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |