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thejah.bsky.social
Read the new #OA article by João Vicente Melo on the early colonial elites of #Luanda. #CentralAfrica #AtlanticWorld #Angola #Portugal #Eurafricans #microhistory

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May 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
janalena.bsky.social
Super fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Kirsten Macfarlane about @oupprimary.bsky.social Lay Learning and the #Bible in the 17th C #AtlanticWorld
#skystorians #EarlyModern #Christianity #HistoryofChristianity #ColonialHistory #BookSky 📚💙
newbooksnetwork.com/lay-learning...
May 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
brettrushforth.bsky.social
Join me and Chris for a zoom talk about Beyond the Ocean: Thursday at 6:45pm eastern. We each picked one thing and one person from the book to illustrate some of its main themes. #earlymodern #atlanticworld #skystorians smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
The Atlantic Empire: A History of French Colonialism
Between 1400 and 1800, the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas grew more connected by overseas trade and colonization. According to historians Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, accounts o...
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July 15, 2026 at 5:17 AM
benjaminwendorf.bsky.social
Can't tell you how exciting I am to see this in print, having seen some of the work that's gone into it. Believe me when I say @maryhicks.bsky.social's first book is going to be a fantastic contribution to #AtlanticWorld, #AfricanHistory, and #AfricanDiaspora #history. #BlackHistory
Cover of Mary E. Hick's new book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery.
November 13, 2024 at 1:20 AM
cmacphee.bsky.social
One of these is not like the others, but all are exciting (and long-delayed) purchases

All hail the @pennpress.bsky.social summer sale! 📚☀️

#earlymodern #atlanticworld #earlyamerica
June 23, 2026 at 2:27 AM
siga.spainculture.us
📢 Now on view @cmoa:
Fault Lines: Art, Imperialism, and the Atlantic World
🗓 July 12, 2025 – Jan 25, 2026
What happens when the boundaries of art history are redrawn along the routes of empire? #AtlanticWorld #EarlyModernArt
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August 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
basqego.bsky.social
BASQEGO : À la découverte des voix maritimes basques (XVIIe-XVIIIe)

Suivez-nous pour découvrir les coulisses d’un projet d’histoire vivante !

#BASQEGO #histoire #PaysBasque #PrizePapers #correspondance #XVIIIesiècle #egodocuments ##AtlanticWorld #HistoireBasque #Linguistique #UPPA #ANR #ITEM #IKER
May 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
perurealfonso.bsky.social
#Job #AcademicJob #EarlyModern #IberianStudies #AtlanticWorld #HistoriaIndiana 👇
homophonous.bsky.social S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · Feb 18
Job in my department, one year renewable for three, early modern Iberian Atlantic world. I’m on the committee, happy to have a conversation/answer questions as far as is appropriate. March 15 deadline. apply.interfolio.com/181565?utm_s...
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February 18, 2026 at 2:11 AM
cmacphee.bsky.social
It is SO exciting to be in Barbados and to see so many of the places that I’ve read so much about in my studies of the #earlymodern #atlanticworld

George Ayscue never mentioned how beautiful Carlisle Bay is …
Letter from George Ayscue, signed “on board ye Rainebowe in Carlisle Bay” Carlisle Bay, Barbados
July 11, 2026 at 1:35 AM
1789jam.bsky.social
Sending this onward - looks like another great online & live paper/discussion from the #IHR: Edmond Smith, University of Manchester! #earlymodern #AtlanticWorld #globalhistory @long18thsem.bsky.social #skystorians

www.history.ac.uk/events/trans...
Trans-Imperial Trade and Networked Capital in Britain’s Economic Development, 1660-1800
www.history.ac.uk
November 25, 2024 at 7:02 PM
kmccullo.bsky.social
New volume out on #Scottish #Loyalism in the British #AtlanticWorld in Atlantic Studies 21:2 (June 2024), with articles by @jimambuske.bsky.social Nicola Martin, Kimberly Sherman, Matt Ward, Graeme Morton, and Myself. Take a look! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjas20/c...
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May 17, 2024 at 3:46 PM
bfworld.bsky.social
What do we owe to the memory of enslaved people when we study the mechanics of slavery?

In this BFW episode, we discuss the business of slavery—but center the human cost.

Start listening now: benfranklinsworld.com/418

#AtlanticWorld #BenFranklinsWorld #Podcasts #History
August 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
johnokeefe.bsky.social
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Marlene L. Daut - fascinating and a great discussion of integrating cross-linguistic histories and new research #booksky #academicsky #haitianhistory #royalhistory #atlanticworld
newbooksnetwork.com/the-first-an...
Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025) - New Books Network
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March 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
johnokeefe.bsky.social
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
newbooksnetwork.com/the-age-of-r... - focuses in on the year 1800 and the choices being made and transformations happening then. This is a book I will be reading through thoroughly #atlanticworld #revolutions #booksy
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, "The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It" (Basic Books, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
geezydagrey.bsky.social
A quadroon was a historical racial classification used in colonial societies to describe a person with one-quarter African ancestry. The term reflected rigid racial hierarchies, especially in slaveholding regions.

#ColonialHistory
#RaceAndIdentity
#AtlanticWorld
#History
May 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
globalhistjnl.bsky.social
📢 New on FirstView!

Igor Martins and Erik Green show that in the United States, Brazil and the Cape Colony, slavery gave enslavers complete rights over mobile property.

#slavery #Atlanticworld #newhistoryofcapitalism #labourcoercion #capitalinvestment #collateralization

doi.org/10.1017/S174...
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
bfworld.bsky.social
What do we owe to the memory of enslaved people when we study the mechanics of slavery?

In this BFW episode, we discuss the business of slavery—but center the human cost.

Start listening now: benfranklinsworld.com/418

#AtlanticWorld #BenFranklinsWorld #Podcasts #History
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
johnokeefe.bsky.social
Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War
by @selenadaly.bsky.social #italianhistory #diaspora #atlanticworld #skystorians #latinamericanhistory #immigrationhistory #wwi #militaryhistory
newbooksnetwork.com/emigrant-sol...
Selena Daly, "Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
bfworld.bsky.social
What do we owe to the memory of enslaved people when we study the mechanics of slavery?

In this BFW episode, we discuss the business of slavery—but center the human cost.

Start listening now: benfranklinsworld.com/418

#AtlanticWorld #BenFranklinsWorld #Podcasts #History
August 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
bfworld.bsky.social
What do we owe to the memory of enslaved people when we study the mechanics of slavery?

In this BFW episode, we discuss the business of slavery—but center the human cost.

Start listening now: benfranklinsworld.com/418

#AtlanticWorld #BenFranklinsWorld #Podcasts #History
August 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
jonwestaway.bsky.social
Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765) (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World)
by Felicity Jensz (Editor), Christina Petterson (Editor).
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#KalaallitNunaat #Greenland #Arctic #HistSci #Missions #Moravians #AtlanticWorld
November 10, 2023 at 12:50 PM
johnokeefe.bsky.social
Catching up on extra tabs - had a great discussion of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography in #worldhistory - including his travels in the Mediterranean, which included witnessing the eruption of #vesuvius www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.294 #Volcanoes #atlanticworld #blackscience #enlightenment
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1769 | Cleveland Museum of Art
With the eruptions of Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius in the 1700s, volcanoes entered the scientific and popular imagination of Enlightenment Europe. Scientists and philosophers theorized the origins of...
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May 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
geezydagrey.bsky.social
The Dutch West India Company advanced Dutch colonial expansion through Atlantic trade, privateering, and settlements, including New Netherland, while participating in the transatlantic slave trade, shaping commerce and imperial rivalry.

#Dutch
#wic
#AtlanticWorld
July 23, 2026 at 7:55 PM
johnokeefe.bsky.social
The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World
Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea
John Coakley, Nathan Kwan, and David Wilson
newbooksnetwork.com/the-problem-... #pirates #booksky #atlanticworld
John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
digitalscorpyun.bsky.social
In 1591, a Portuguese official said Angola could supply enslaved Africans to Brazil “until the end of the world.” That phrase reveals the mindset: not temporary labor, but permanent human extraction as imperial infrastructure. #BornInBlackness #AtlanticWorld
May 19, 2026 at 10:51 PM