Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400–1900: Europe, Africa, and the Americas in an Age of Exploration, Trade, and Empires

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Guide to Related Topics
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Abolition Movement
Abolition of Slavery
Abolition of the Slave Trade
Acadians
Acosta, José de (1540–1600)
Age of Revolution (1750s–1850s)
Algonquins
American Revolution (1775–1783)
Amsterdam
Angola
Arawaks
Atlantic Creoles
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Slave Trade
Azores
Aztec Empire
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561–1626)
Bahia
Barbados
Benin
Bermuda
Bight of Biafra
Black Atlantic
Black Legend
Bogotá
Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830)
Books
Bordeaux
Bourbon Reforms
Bradford, William (1590–1657)
Bradstreet, Anne (ca. 1612–1672)
Brazil
Brébeuf, St. Jean de (1593–1649)
British Atlantic
Buenos Aires
Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez
(ca. 1490–ca. 1559)
Cahokia
Canary Islands
Cape Verde Islands
Caribs
Cartagena de Indias
Cartography
Casta System
Catholic Women Religious
Missionaries
Champlain, Samuel de (1574–1635)
Chickasaws
Chocolate
Choctaws
Code Noir
Coffee
Colonization Movement
Columbian Exchange
Columbus, Christopher
(ca. 1451–1506)
Conquistadors
Cortés, Hernán (1485–1547)
Cotton
Coureurs de Bois
Creek Indians
Cuba
Dampier, William (ca. 1651–1715)
Darwin, Charles (1809–1882)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Declaration of the Rights of Man
and of the Citizen (1789)
De Soto, Hernando (ca. 1496–1542)
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
(ca. 1490s–1584)
Disease
Doña Marina (ca. 1502–ca. 1527)
Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)
Drake, Sir Francis (ca. 1540–1596)
Dutch Atlantic
Dutch West India Company
Edwards, Jonathan (1703–1758)
Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
Elmina
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Encomienda System
Enlightenment
Equiano, Olaudah (ca. 1745–1797)
European
Exploration
Evangelicalism
Fishing and Fisheries
Florida
Franciscans
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
French Atlantic
French Revolution (1789–1799)
Fur Trade
Gens de Couleur
Ghana
Gold and Silver
Gulf Stream
Guns
Haitian Revolution (1791–1803)
Hakluyt, Richard (ca. 1552–1616)
Hardwood
Hidalgo, Miguel (1753–1811)
Huguenots
Humboldt, Alexander von
(1769–1859)
Huron
Huron-Wendat
Feast of the Dead
Hutchinson, Anne (1591–1643)
Inca Empire (1438–1533)
Indentured Servants
Industrial Revolution
Iroquois
Islam
Jamaica
Jamestown
Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)
Jesuits
Joint-Stock
Companies
Juan Diego (1474–1548)
Judaism
Kingdom of Kongo
King William’s War (1688–1697)
Las Casas, Bartolomé de
(1484–1566)
Latin American Wars of
Independence
Legal Systems
Liberia
Locke, John (1632–1704)
London
Louisiana
L’Ouverture, Toussaint (ca. 1743–1803)
Loyalists
Mali Empire
Maroons
Maya Civilization
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Mercantilism
Migration
Mississippians
Mississippi Bubble
(1718–1720)
Moctezuma II (ca. 1466–1520)
Money
Moravians
Mourning Wars
Napoleon I (1769–1821)
Napoleonic Code
Nationalism
Native American Slave Trade
New Amsterdam/New York
New France
New Orleans
Noble Savage Myth
Olmec Civilization
Oneidas
Onondagas
Ouidah
Pan-Indianism
Pequot War (1636–1637)
Pernambuco
Piracy
Plantations
Pocahontas (ca. 1596–1617)
Pontiac’s War (1763–1766)
Portuguese Atlantic
Potato
Potosí
Powhatan (ca. 1550–1618)
Praying Indians
Privateering
Progressivism
Protestant Missionaries
Protestant Reformation
Pueblo Revolt (1680)
Puerto Rico
Puritans
Quakers
Quebec
Quetzalcoatl
Race
Raleigh, Sir Walter (ca. 1552–1618)
Reconquista
Rice
Rio de Janeiro
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–1778)
Royal African Company
Rum
Sailors
Saint-Domingue/Haiti
San Martín, José de (1778–1850)
Scots-Irish
Senegambia
Seven Years’ War (1754–1763)
Slave Rebellion
Slavery
Slave Trade in Africa
Smith, John (1580–1631)
Smuggling
Spanish Armada (1588)
Sugar
Taínos
Tea
Tecumseh (ca. 1768–1813)
Tekakwitha, Saint Kateri
(1656–1680)
Tenochtitlán
Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee
Prophet (1775–1832)
Tobacco
Trade Winds
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
Trinidad
United Provinces of the Netherlands
Viceregal System
Viking Voyages
Virgin of Guadeloupe
Vodou
Wesley, John (1703–1791)
Wheatley, Phillis (ca. 1753–1784)
Whitefield, George (1714–1770)
Wilberforce, William (1759–1833)
Williams, Roger (ca. 1603–1683)
Wine
Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
Witchcraft
Women
World’s Fair Expositions
Yamasee War (1715–1717)
Yoruba Kingdom
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Editor and Contributors
Index