The Atlantic (Seas in History)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Atlantic legends and Atlantic reality before the Iberian discoveries......Page 22
A new Atlantic: from the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth centuries......Page 49
The Atlantic and the Iberians: sixteenth to seventeenth centuries......Page 79
The Atlantic and the growth of the naval powers: the seventeenth century......Page 109
The golden age of the colonial Atlantic: the eighteenth century......Page 147
Men and powers in the Atlantic: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries......Page 184
The Atlantic in the nineteenth century: tradition and change......Page 230
The Atlantic in the twentieth century......Page 275
Conclusion......Page 313
Notes......Page 316
Bibliography......Page 333
Index......Page 336