From Atlantic history to a continental approach

Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 279-298

  Wood, Peter H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined; Epitomized; European; Immigrant; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 85198840137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195320336.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

References (13)

1. Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 171-194,.
2. "Metamorphosis of the Americas, " in Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis, eds., Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), pp. 70-89.
3. Trevor Burnard, "Only Connect: The Rise and Rise (and Fall?) of Atlantic History, " Historically Speaking (July/August 2006): 19-21. Also see the useful collection,.
4. "Forum: Beyond the Atlantic, " William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 63 (October 2006): 675-742.
5. Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 1.
6. For a useful presentation of this broader, continental approach, see William H. Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams, The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole (New York: Prentice Hall, 1992).
7. See also John Logan Allen, ed., North American Exploration, 3 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997),.
8. James R. Gibson, "The Exploration of the Pacific Coast, " in vol. 2: A Continent Defined, pp. 329-396. An excellent issue of the online publication Common-Place [5, no. 2 (January 2005)] focused on bringing the Pacific into early American history.
9. See Ernest Stanley Dodge, Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976);.
10. Walter A. McDougall, Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacifi c from Magellan to MacArthur (New York: Basic Books, 1993);.
11. the review article of Stefan Halikowski Smith, "The Pacific World, 1500-1900, " Itinerario, 30, no. 1 (2006): 83-86.
12. For an introduction to the unfolding of this complex cartography, see Carl I. Wheat, The Mapping of the Transmississippi West, 5 vols. (San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963)., vol. 1.
13. Dora Beale Polk, The Island of California: A History of the Myth (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991).