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WORLD HISTORY

FORTHCOMING
Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400–1900

Europe, Africa, and the Americas in an Age
of Exploration, Trade, and Empires

2 VOLUMES | DAVID HEAD, EDITOR
Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400–1900 synthesizes a generation of historical
scholarship on the events on four continents, providing readers an invaluable
introduction to the major people, places, events, movements, objects, concepts, and
commodities of the Atlantic world as it developed during a key period in history when
the world first started to shrink. The entries discuss specific topics with an eye toward ABC-CLIO
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DAVID HEAD, PhD, is a lecturer of
FEATURES history at the University of Central
Florida in Orlando.
• Provides readers with authoritative information on the people, places, events, and
commodities at the heart of Atlantic history
• Demonstrates the interconnections among people, places, and events from different
regions, overcoming the tendency to see history as limited by national boundaries

NEW
The Sea in World History

Exploration, Travel, and Trade

2 VOLUMES | STEPHEN K. STEIN, EDITOR
In all eras, water transport has served as the cheapest and most efficient means of
moving cargo and people over any significant distance. Only relatively recently have
railroads and aircraft provided an alternative. Most of the world’s bulk goods continue
to travel primarily by ship over water. Even today, 95 percent of the cargo that enters
and leaves the United States does so by ship. Similarly, people around the world rely
on the sea for food, and in recent years, the sea has become an important source of
oil and other resources, with the longterm effects of our continuing efforts to extract ABC-CLIO
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FEATURES
• Provides a broad survey of the importance of the oceans for all of human culture
and civilization, including coverage of diverse cultures such as the Polynesians, STEPHEN K. STEIN is a specialist
Vikings, Minoans, and many others in naval history and the history of
technology who has written on topics
• Traces the human use of the sea over time, noting activities and historic events such ranging from ancient battles to aviation
as piracy, the slave trade, fishing, and whaling, as well as describing commerce in to the iPod.
ancient and modern contexts

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