Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-459) and index.
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Presents an illustrated examination of the Atlantic Ocean and the transformative role it has played as a corridor for the exchange of people, technologies, ideas, goods, and cultures for over two thousand years as exploration and discovery helped in the growth of global commerce.