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The Atlantic / Paul Butel ; translated by Iain Hamilton Grant

Author
Butel, Paul
Uniform Title
Histoire de l'Atlantique. English
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : 1 map
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Language Note
Translation of: Histoire de l'Atlantique.
Contents
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Atlantic legends and Atlantic reality before the Iberian discoveries; A new Atlantic: from the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; The Atlantic and the Iberians: sixteenth to seventeenth centuries; The Atlantic and the growth of the naval powers: the seventeenth century; The golden age of the colonial Atlantic: the eighteenth century; Men and powers in the Atlantic: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; The Atlantic in the nineteenth century: tradition and change.
Summary
Butel offers a global history of the Atlantic, surveying the important events of the ocean's rich past and discussing how its power and influence has affected the peoples and nations which have come into contact with it over many centuries.
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ISBN
9780203010440 (electronic bk.)
0203010442 (electronic bk.)
9780415106900
0415106907
0203200985
9780203200988
9786610195473
6610195471
1134843054
9781134843053
1280195479
9781280195471
0203010442
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-318) and index.
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