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The Other Atlantic World
Author(s) -
Ward Jason
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2003.0033.x
Subject(s) - atlantic world , perspective (graphical) , world history , history , gulf stream , geography , computer science , artificial intelligence , ancient history , meteorology
Despite the common imagination of the early modern Atlantic World as centered in the British‐dominated North Atlantic, a broader perspective reveals that there is in fact another Atlantic World which is both larger and older than the English version, and whose general history responds to global but not necessarily European currents of history. 1 Locating that "other" Atlantic World requires that we rethink its spatial and temporal dimensions.