Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities.
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| Title: | Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities. |
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| Authors: | Games, Alison |
| Source: | American Historical Review. Jun2006, Vol. 111 Issue 3, p741-757. 17p. |
| Subjects: | World history, Historical analysis, Historians, History, Ocean |
| Geographic Terms: | Atlantic Ocean |
| Abstract: | The article explores the history of the Atlantic Ocean and discusses the opportunities such a study presents. Atlantic history is a slice of world history. It is a way of looking at global and regional processes within a contained unit. The Atlantic, moreover, is a geographic space that has a limited chronology as a logical unit of historical analysis: it is not a timeless unit. Atlantic history is more than simply the study of a geographic unit; it is also a style of inquiry that reflects the impulse that drew historians in specific fields to Atlantic history in the first place. |
| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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