Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3554283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P E Lovejoy (0000-0002-3359-2212, corresponding author), John Thornton (0000-0003-2312-8042), John K Thornton (0000-0001-8760-2634) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/205584 |
| OpenAlex | W2330125196 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This book shows how important the African role was in shaping the Atlantic world that developed after the navigational breakthroughs of the fifteenth century. The degree of African initiative displayed in this period is stressed, both by African elites in dealing with the new visitors and trading partners and, even by African slaves in the New World. Evenly divided into sections on Africa and Africans in the New World, this study stresses cultural and institutional backgrounds to Africa and African slaves. Although the book is intended to help Africanists understand how Africans fared in the Americas, its main purpose is to give readers familiar with Afro-American history a fuller and more dynamic vision of Africa, so they can see the African slave as an African and not just as a laborer
Ancient history · Atlantic World · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2013 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |