From the Mediterranean origins of slave-worked sugar plantations to the Chinese demand for silver from American mines, The Global Atlantic discusses key examples of these connections with clarity, enabling students to understand how existing ideas and incentives shaped the emerging Global Atlantic, and how these Atlantic systems in turn created the world we live in today.
Christoph Strobel is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire, and co-author, with Alice Nash, of Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth-Century America.