Part I. Explorations and first contacts -- The Atlantic world before 1492 -- Europe: a new age of trade and travel -- Medieval Africa -- The Americas -- Part II. Colonization and conquest -- The voyages of Columbus -- The Columbian exchange -- Earliest encounters -- Spanish colonial institutions in New Spain -- The colonization of Brazil -- Colonial settlements in Northern America and the Caribbean -- Part III: Connections, journeys, and war -- Atlantic trade and empire -- Slavery -- Part IV: The age of ideas -- The enlightenment -- The age of revolution -- New forms of resistance and expansion -- The abolition of slavery in the Atlantic -- Part IV: The paradox of modernity -- Industrialization -- Migration -- Atlantic societies in the nineteenth century -- Continued colonialism -- Conclusions.
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