- Publisher: Robinson
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 195x125mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781472145918
- Product code: 546630
A Brief History of the Atlantic
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One of the world’s greatest transport routes, the Atlantic has played a critical part in human history. After surveying its oceanography and ecology, this study follows the Irish monks and Vikings who first ventured onto its waters, and examines its role in the colonization of the Americas, the slave trade, and as a theatre of conflict in two world wars, before assessing the environmental threats it faces today.
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The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world.
Black discusses the importance of the Atlantic in relation to world history as well as addressing topics such as those bravest to attempt to cross the ocean before Columbus, the beginnings of slavery from 1400-1600, the struggle for control between empires in the 1600s, the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables, the battle of the Falkland, and the Cold War.
Black also touches on the Atlantic we know today, and the struggles it faces due to urgent global issues including climate change, pollution, and the trials of the economic rise in the Indo-Pacific world.
If you have ever yearned to know more about this famed and vital ocean, this clear and concise history will be a key read as one of the first of its kind on its evolution to becoming an established world ocean.
Black discusses the importance of the Atlantic in relation to world history as well as addressing topics such as those bravest to attempt to cross the ocean before Columbus, the beginnings of slavery from 1400-1600, the struggle for control between empires in the 1600s, the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables, the battle of the Falkland, and the Cold War.
Black also touches on the Atlantic we know today, and the struggles it faces due to urgent global issues including climate change, pollution, and the trials of the economic rise in the Indo-Pacific world.
If you have ever yearned to know more about this famed and vital ocean, this clear and concise history will be a key read as one of the first of its kind on its evolution to becoming an established world ocean.
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One of the world’s greatest transport routes, the Atlantic has played a critical part in human history. After surveying its oceanography and ecology, this study follows the Irish monks and Vikings who first ventured onto its waters, and examines its role in the colonization of the Americas, the slave trade, and as a theatre of conflict in two world wars, before assessing the environmental threats it faces today.
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