European Perspectives on a Longer Atlantic World

Atlantic history is less a new historiographical trend than a methodological approach which rejects both the traditional narration of the occidentalization of the world and the broad generalizations of world history based on economicistic determinism. Atlantic history focuses on men and women seen as workers and consumers, as well as on their political, cultural, and religious practices and gender differences, rather than on colonial economies or colonial empires. While this methodological ap

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