Atlantic History
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Atlantic History is a major new topic in history that emerged in the 1980s, led by American historians Bernard Bailyn of Harvard University and Jack Greene of Johns Hopkins University. Bailyn has promoted social and demographic studies, and especially the demographic flows of population int o colonial America. He is a leading advocate of the history of the Atlantic world. Since 1995, Bailyn has organized an annual international seminar at Harvard designed to promote scholarship in this field.[1]
Bibliography
- Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution Knopf 1986, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
- Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005). online excerpts
- Gould, Eliga H.. and Peter S. Onuf, eds. Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 391 pages.
- Mancke, Elizabeth, and Carole Shammas, eds. The Creation of the British Atlantic World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 408 pages.
- Olwell, Robert, and Alan Tully, eds. Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 394 pages.