Atlantic World Comprehensive Exam List

Final Draft, October 2018

Theory/General (8-9 titles)

1. Armitage, David, and Michael J. Braddick, eds. The British Atlantic World, 1500-
1800. Second Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
2. Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2005.
3. Coclanis, Peter A. “Atlantic World or Atlantic/World?” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd
Series, 63, No. 4 (October 2006): 725-742.
4. Egerton, Douglas R., Alison Games, Jane G. Landers, Kris Lane, and Donald R. Wright. The
Atlantic World: A History, 1400 – 1888. New York: Wiley, 2007.
5. Elliott, John H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
6. Esguerra, Jorge Cañizares. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories,
Epistemologies, and Identities in the New World. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press,
2001.
7. Gillis, John R. Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
8. Greene, Jack P. and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
9. Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Atlantic Slavery & Race (8-9 titles)

10. Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern,
1492-1800. London: Verso, 2010.
11. Brown, Christopher. Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
12. Brown, Vincent. The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
13. Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
14. Molineux, Catherine. Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial
Britain. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
15. Postma, Johannes. The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
16. Smallwood, Stephanie. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American
Diaspora. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
17. Swingen, Abigail L. Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the
British Atlantic Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
18. Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1944.

Empire-Building in the Atlantic (8-9 titles)

19. Elliott, John H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
20. Daniels, Christine, and Michael V. Kennedy, eds. Negotiated Empires: Centers and
Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820. New York: Routledge, 2002.
21. Dawdy, Shannon Lee. Building the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2008.
22. Esguerra, Jorge Cañizares. Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
23. McNeill, J. R. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
24. Pagden, Anthony. Lords of All the Worlds: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and
France c.1500-c.1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
25. Rothschild, Emma. The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2011.
26. Romney, Susanah Shaw. New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties
in Seventeenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Ecology, Economy, & Commodity Studies (8-9 titles)

27. DuPlessis, Robert S. The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the
Atlantic World, 1650-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
28. Eacott, Jonathan. Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830.
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
29. Hancock, David. Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and
Taste. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
30. McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789.
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
31. Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York:
Viking Press, 1985.
32. Mulcahy, Matthew. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
33. Schiebinger, Londa L. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
34. Warsh, Molly A. American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700. Chapel
Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Gender & Sexuality (8-9 titles)

35. Candlin, Kit and Cassandra Pybus. Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the
Revolutionary Atlantic. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
36. Creighton, Margaret S. and Lisa Norling, eds. Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and
Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1996.
37. Fuentes, Marisa J. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
38. Livesay, Daniel. Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the
Atlantic Family, 1733-1833. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
39. Morgan, Jennifer. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2004.
40. Palmer, Jennifer L. Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
41. Wilson, Kathleen. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire, and Gender in the Eighteenth
Century. New York: Routledge, 2003.
42. Winters, Lisa Ze. The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the
Black Transatlantic. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Revolutionary Atlantic (6-8 titles)

43. Adelman, Jeremy. Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2006.
44. Dun, James Alexander. Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early
America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
45. Geggus, David P. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
46. Gould, Eliga H. Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making
of a New World Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
47. Paquette, Gabriel. Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian
World, c.1770-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
48. Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan. Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
49. Polasky, Janet. Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
50. Yokota, Kariann Akemi. Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a
Postcolonial Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.