Nathalie Dessens, Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, eds. Haïti, regards croisés. Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit, 2007. 385 pp. EUR 25.90 (paper), ISBN 978-2-7481-8492-1.
Reviewed by Jean-François Brière (Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures/French Studies, State University of New York, Albany) Published on H-Atlantic (April, 2008)
Haiti and Louisiana: New Perspectives
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)
Michael Leroy Oberg. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x + 205 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4031-3.
Reviewed by June Namias (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2008)
S. D. Smith. Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 380 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-86338-4.
Reviewed by James Robertson (Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2008)
Frank Lambert. The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World. New York: Hill & Wang, 2005. ix + 260 po. $24.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-9533-9; $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8090-2811-5.
Reviewed by Christine E. Sears (Department of History, University of Alabama-Huntsville) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2008)
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
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
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
