Joao Pedro Marques. The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. 282 S. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57181-447-0.
Reviewed by Timothy Coates (Department of History, College of Charleston) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2008)
The Sin of Omission
John D. Krugler. English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 319 pp. $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-7963-0.
Reviewed by Jerome de Groot (Department of English, University of Manchester) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2008)
Douglas J. Hamilton. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. vii + 249 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7182-9.
Reviewed by Mark Quintanilla (Department of History, Hannibal-LaGrange College) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2008)
Louis Sicking. Frontieres d'Outre-Mer: La France et les Pays-Bas dans le monde atlantique au XIXe siecle. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2006. 207 pp. EUR 28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-2-84654-148-0.
Reviewed by Henriette De Bruyn Kops (Department of History, Georgetown University) Published on H-Atlantic (February, 2008)
I. C. B. Dear, ed. The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 677 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-860616-1.
Reviewed by Glenn Gordinier (Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic Seaport) Published on H-Atlantic (February, 2008)
A Venerable Maritime Reference Reconstituted
Allan I. Macinnes, Arthur H. Williamson, eds. Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xiv + 389 pp. $129.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-14711-9.
Reviewed by Victor Enthoven (Netherlands Defense Academy and Royal Netherlands Naval College) Published on H-Atlantic (February, 2008)
A Caledonian Fairytale
Kellen Kee McIntyre, Richard E. Phillips, eds. Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xviii + 449 pp. $129.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-15392-9.
Reviewed by Delia Cosentino (Department of Art and Art History, DePaul University) Published on H-Atlantic (February, 2008)
Woman Represented
Martin Brückner. The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ix + 276 pp. $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5672-7.
Reviewed by Robert Michael Morrissey (Department of History, University of Tennessee) Published on H-Atlantic (January, 2008)
John Lynch. Simón Bolívar: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 368 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-11062-3; $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-12604-4.
Reviewed by Monica Henry (Université François-Rabelais, Tours) Published on H-Atlantic (January, 2008)
Spanish America in the Age of Revolution
Janny Venema. Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 527 pp. $31.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7914-6080-1; $86.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7914-6079-5.
Reviewed by Holly Rine (Department of History, Le Moyne College) Published on H-Atlantic (December, 2007)
Beverwijck Uncovered
Annie Molinié, Alexandra Merle, Araceli Guillaume-Alonso, eds. Les jésuites en Espagne et en Amérique: jeux et enjeux du pouvoir (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Les Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2007. 631 pp. EUR 35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-2-84050-489-4.
Reviewed by Christophe Belaubre (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia) Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2007)
Vincent Carretta. Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xxviii + 436 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-2571-2.
Reviewed by Douglas Chambers (Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi) Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2007)
"Almost an Englishman": Carretta's Equiano
Colin Kidd. The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 309 S. $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-79729-0; $84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-79324-7.
Reviewed by Ruth Doan (Department of History, Hollins University) Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2007)
David Cannadine, ed. Empire, the Sea, and Global History: Britain's Maritime World, c.1763-c.1840. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. viii + 159 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-00899-1.
Reviewed by Isaac Land (Indiana State University) Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2007)
Go with the Flow
Marika Sherwood. After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade since 1807. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007. x + 246 pp. £20 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84511-365-0.
Reviewed by Christian Hogsbjerg (Department of History, University of York) Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2007)
