James Carson: The Atlantic World

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The ‘Atlantic World’ is defined by James Carson, writer for the Oxford Bibliographies, as “an historical concept that frames the histories of Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the opening of the age of European exploration to the ending of the American wars for independence in the 1820s.” It had to do with the history and interactions among all the people and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The concept of the ‘Atlantic World’ is interrelated to the economic networks and migratory patterns of American, European, and African societies in the 17th and 18th centuries. They all go hand in hand. The social history, the economy, and the demographic analysis of the ‘Atlantic World’ helped form and build the European, American, and African

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