The Atlantic
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Bibliographic Information
The Atlantic
（Seas in history / series editor, Geoffrey Scammell）
Routledge, 1999
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Histoire de l'Atlantique
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-318) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
From Antiquity to modern times, the Atlantic has been the subject of myths and legends. The Atlantic by Paul Butel offers a global history of the ocean encompassing the exploits of adventurers, Vikings, explorers such as Christopher Columbus, emigrants, fishermen, and modern traders. The book also highlights the importance of the growth of ports such as New York and Liverpool and the battles of the Atlantic in the world wars of the twentieth century.
The author offers an examination of the legends of the ocean, beginning with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians navigating beyong the Pillars of Hercules, and details the exploitation and power struggles of the Atlantic through the centuries.
The book surveys the important events in the Atlantic's rich history and comprehensively analyses the changing fortunes of sea-going nations, including Britain, the United States and Germany.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Atlantic legends and Atlantic reality before the Iberian discoveries 2 A new Atlantic: from the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth centuries 3 The Atlantic and the Iberians: sixteenth to seventeenth centuries 4 The Atlantic and the growth of the naval powers: the seventeenth century 5 The golden age of the colonial Atlantic: the eighteenth century 6 Men and powers in the Atlantic: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7 The Atlantic in the nineteenth century: tradition and change 8 The Atlantic in the twentieth century 9 Conclusion
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