The Atlantic World: 1450–2000 (Blacks in the Diaspora) - Softcover

Falola and Roberts have opened an avenue for the study of the Atlantic World that insists on complicating historical questions and methods. These complications require a re-assessment of interdisciplinary modes of doing and writing history.Vol. 42.1 2009 Author: Solimar Otero Source: Louisiana State University

This collection of essays draws together the latest and most recent contentious scholarship on the Atlantic world. . . . Recommended. June 2009 Source: Choice

[Provides] a very valuable perspective on Atlantic history that places Africans and the oppressed front and centre of the historical narrative. It is not European elites who drive the Atlantic world in this interpretation; it is African slaves, Caribbean nationalists and African and Native American opponents of globalisation who dominate the process. . . Falola and Roberts have provided a useful corrective to more celebratory accounts of the making of the Atlantic World.37.3 Sept. 2009 Source: Journal Imperial and Commonwealth History

[This] collection addresses all three historiographical views of how the Atlantic world ended, a feature that, more than anything else, makes it a successful volume. Vol. 84, No. 3 & 4, 2010 Source: New West Indian Guide

The editors of this volume are to be commended for organizing such an intelligent and well-integrated history of the Atlantic World. January, 2011 Source: H-Soz-u-Kult

Each of the four sections contains several finely written and well-formulated essays that will inspire scolars to venture beyond the common tendency to hyper-specialize and to utilize a macro perspective when considering the Atlantic World. Vol. 21, no. 2 Source: International Journal of Maritime History

Falola and Roberts have edited a collection of essays worthy of their goal: to 'represent both the roots of the Atlantic World paradigm and the seemingly limitless potential that the field has in the future.' Source: European History Quarterly