Crosscultural exchange in the atlantic world by roquinaldo ferreira. Networks and transcultural exchange slave trading in the south. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the atlantic basin before 1830 by describing the political, social, and cultural interactions between the continents inhabitants. The contributors approach the period from the perspective of the atlantic maritime economy, making a strong case for viewing british romanticism as the effect of myriad economic and cultural exchanges occurring throughout a circumatlantic world. Cultural homestay international chi has excelled at promoting international understanding and goodwill through peopletopeople exchanges since 1980. My book will examine the critical role that flanders played in political, commercial and cultural exchanges stretching from at least iceland to. Evaluate and compare the construction and deconstruction of new and old world social, political, and cultural identities. English and scandinavian communities stood at important cultural intersections in the north atlantic world. Demonstrate graduatelevel competencies in reading comprehension and documentary analysis.
The atlantic world provides a comprehensive and lucid history of one of the most important and impactful crosscultural encounters in human history. Cross cultural exchange in the atlantic world this book argues that angola and brazil were connected, not separated, by the atlantic ocean. Written by an international team of scholars, the essays in this volume examine a wide range of commercial exchanges, from first. Cross cultural exchange in the atlantic world by roquinaldo ferreira april 2012. Items changed hands and crossed cultural boundaries frequently, often gaining new and valuable meanings in the process. However, this article argues that crosscultural interactions and exchanges have influenced the development of all or almost all peoples and societies throughout the worlds history, looking at cultural exchanges in premodern and modern times. The making and unmaking of an atlantic world oxford. The first encyclopedic reference to atlantic historybetween the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among africa, the americas, and europe transformed world historythrough maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel.
Although the book claims to be study of witchcraft in the atlantic world, nearly twothirds of the sixtyfive selections focus on new england, while four of the eight sections of the book are. These interactions and exchanges transformed european, african, and american societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures, economies, and ideas throughout the atlantic arena. Quizlet flashcards, activities and games help you improve your grades. The columbian exchange impacted the social and cultural makeup of both sides of the atlantic. Death in the new world serves as an excellent introduction to comparative burial and mourning practices and to the ways in which written, archaeological, and ethnographic evidence can be employed to elucidate crosscultural exchanges. Furthermore, perhaps because of the eu framework seven project, or because of the editors primary audience, the book does not shy away from discussing the role of europeans in the south atlantic business. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration, migration and cultural encounters. Risk, transaction and textual circulation in the spanish atlantic world 14921650, examines the cultural implications of written transactions private letters and ones from armada officers, shipwreck accounts on the open seas that textually rephrase spanish culture across the spanish atlantic. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. A cultural history of the atlantic world, 12501820 explores the strong links between the histories of africa, europe, and north and south america. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
This book describes, explains, and, occasionally, challenges conventional wisdom. What distinguishes cultural exchange from cultural. Beginning after columbus discovery in 1492 the exchange lasted throughout the years. Atlantic world department of history brown university. Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among africa, the americas, and europe transformed world historythrough maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. Should be required reading in any undergraduate course focusing on stuart england, and for historians and others interested in exploring the atlantic world of the 17th century. Her main objective is to demonstrate that witchcraft beliefs in the new world were the product of these complex and often unconscious cultural exchanges. Reconstructing biographies of africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross. Petitioning slaves and the creation of the south atlantic slave trade. Concept and contours, which is your first selection there are two essays in the book. This book argues that angola and brazil were connected, not separated, by the atlantic ocean. By zara anishanslin teaching and learning atlantic world history can be a depressing business. Angola and brazil during the era of the slave trade by roquinaldo ferriera 2012 the atlantic slave trade between africa and the americas connected merchants, portuguese colonists, convicts, and slaves in cultural and economic relationships, reconfiguring the space of the southern atlantic. In what way did europes cultural exchanges with the americas and the pacific differ from its exchanges with china and the islamic world.
The best books on atlantic history five books expert. The making of an atlantic world slavery and remembrance. Study 42 terms world civilizations chapter 14 flashcards. The journal of american history a wellwritten book. For example, in the article the myth of early globalization.
Evaluate and analyze the historiographical themes of atlantic world studies. In france in the world, islam is a significant presence, from ancient battles, migrations and cultural exchanges to colonial conquests which spawned the tensions of today. It is a sophisticated interdisciplinary study that weaves together multiple strands of evidence. Yet atlantic world history has its more continue reading a recipe for. Transatlantic literary ecologies nature and culture in. It requires thinking about the causes, course, and effects of some of the more horrific events in early modern history, such as the enforced migration of millions of enslaved africans to europes atlantic colonies.
The crosscultural exchange of atlantic slavery not even past. If its culture thats taken, then presumably whats given back is the art. The volume then considers questions such as finance, money and commerce in. Crosscultural exchange in the atlantic world is a groundbreaking historical. The atlantic slave trade between africa and the americas connected merchants, portuguese colonists, convicts, and slaves in cultural and. Caribbean exchanges susan dwyer amussen university of. Assiduously researched, cross cultural exchange in the atlantic world is a fascinating account of the economic, social, and cultural ties binding angola and brazil during the era of the slave trade. The journal of african american history adds to the familiar picture.
Seeman argues that in the period covered by his book, death served as a ground upon which many important cultural exchanges took place, offering members of the different cultures and geographical origins meeting in the new world the opportunity to. Collecting across cultures daniela bleichmar, peter c. Crosscultural exchange in the atlantic world duke university press. Cultural exchanges in world history oxford handbooks. Exchanges of culture, ideas, diseases, slaves and technology transformed european and native american societies. Introduction crosscultural exchange in the atlantic world. Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisations collection. The columbian exchange was a region of trade that occurred during period of biological and cultural exchanges of the atlantic states. Atlantic world history refers to relationships and interactions between the peoples of the americas, africa and europe, from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century, as these regions came to constitute a single, integrated system, joined rather than separated by the atlantic ocean. The fourteen essays in collecting across cultures represent new work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Department of history kansas state university 117 calvin hall 802 midcampus dr. Angola and brazil during the era of the slave trade. Collecting across cultures material exchanges in the early modern atlantic world edited by daniela bleichmar and peter c.
Europeans, africans, indians and their shared history, 1400 1900, is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on the history of the atlantic world. Passerini, professor in the methodology of historical research luisa. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading cross cultural exchange in the atlantic world. Yalenews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the university community. Angola and brazil during the era of the slave trade african studies book 121 kindle edition by roquinaldo. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Fromont sheds light on the crosscultural exchanges between africa, europe, and latin america that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from. Crosscultural exchange in the atlantic world is a groundbreaking historical study of the transatlantic slave trade between the 17th and 19th. Benjamins narrative, supplemented by the voices of contemporary atlantic world inhabitants, deftly illustrates the complex connections that have historically joined. Cultural exchanges between europe and the united states series multiple europes, 9780820446653.
Given the scope of atlantic history it has tended to downplay the singular influence of the voyages of columbus and to focus more on growing interactions among african and european polities ca 14501500, including contact and conflict in the mediterranean and atlantic islands, as critical to the emergence of the atlantic world. Angola and brazil during the era of the slave trade african studies book 121 kindle edition by ferreira, roquinaldo. The atlantic economy, 15001800 pieter emmer makes the point that from 1500 onward, a clash of cultures had begun in the atlantic. The books main themenetworks and trans cultural exchange also sets it apart from most other collections. Authors of new books may forward publishers book descriptions to us by email. Chi is designated by the united states department of state as a j1 visa sponsor, and is a proud member of the council on standards for international educational travel csiet, world youth. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. By opening a critical dialogue between these two vital areas of scholarship, transatlantic literary ecologies demonstrates some of the key ways in which western environmental consciousness and associated literary practices arose in the context of transatlantic literary and cultural exchanges during the long nineteenth century. Each author explores a specific aspect of the crosscultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. Smallpox, syphilis, swine, and spuds this is a short but highly original book whose title became a term used all over the world in referring to the biological and cultural exchange of products, microbes, and people after columbus discovery in 1492. Studies of the south atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections. Material exchanges in the early modern atlantic world. Roquinaldo ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious, and social impacts of the slave trade on angola. In the first chapters, scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the atlantic world, such as slaves, european migrants and native americans.
Graduate iberian literary and cultural studies spanish. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving process, the book powerfully illustrates how atlantic slaving transformed key african institutions, such as local regimes of forced labor that predated and coexisted with atlantic slaving, and made them fundamental features of the atlantic world s social fabric. New peoples, economies, societies, polities, and cultures arose, particularly in the lands and. The atlantic slave trade was a part of african history that had made one of its biggest impact on africas relation with the world and more importantly on the inner workings of the country itself due to its largescale involvement of many of the people in the continent. As the connections and exchanges deepened and intensified, much was transformed.
The atlantic slave trade and its impact on africa 1081 words 5 pages. Building the british atlantic world is an introduction to the oceangoing culture of the british atlantic world as interpreted through its buildings, landscapes and settlements, exploring the extent, diversity, and sameness of the architecture built by the british overseas across their north atlantic colonies. You trace the topics genealogy in a 2005 book of essays entitled atlantic history. A cultural history of the atlantic world, 12501820. Crosscultural exchanges in world history, 1900 focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the mediterranean sea and the atlantic and indian oceans during the second millennium. Create pedagogical tools for teaching atlantic world. One of the influences related to the migration of people were cultural exchanges. The crosscultural exchange of atlantic slavery not even. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed european and native american ways of life.
Cambridge core african history crosscultural exchange in the atlantic world by roquinaldo ferreira. The columbian exchange is a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the new and old worlds. This book focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the mediterranean sea and the atlantic and indian oceans during the second millennium, when transportation technology was fragile and religion often a primary marker of identity. The princeton companion to atlantic history on jstor. The art of conversion university of north carolina press. The exchange in cultural exchange suggests you give something in return for having taken something.
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