Sandler, Martin W.

Atlantic Ocean : the illustrated history of the ocean that changed the world / Martin W. Sandler ; foreword by Dennis Reinhartz. - New York : Sterling, c2008. - xi, 468 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-459) and index.

The Atlantic : the sea of darkness -- Exploration and discovery : Europeans encounter a new world -- Impact of the new world : European and Native American cultures collide -- Colonization : settling a new world -- Slavery : inhuman bondage -- The American Revolution : cutting ties across the Atlantic -- The impact of the American Revolution : a new model for government -- The Industrial Revolution : mechanization and the Atlantic world -- New ships, new commerce : a new age of Atlantic trade -- The great tide of immigration : a historic transfer of cultures -- The Atlantic world confirmed : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

9781402747243 (hbk.)

2010275965

GBA8A0926 bnb

014697319 Uk


Ocean and civilization.


Atlantic Ocean--History.
Atlantic Ocean--Discovery and exploration.

CB465 / .S26 2008

551.46/13