Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
8 best books like Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 (J. H. Elliott): The Comfort of Strangers, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident, Black Dogs
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0679749845 |
This was exactly the novel I didn’t want to read, but at least it’s official now – NO MORE IAN MCEWAN BOOKS FOR ME, EVER. I would like to tell you how stupid this novel is, but Maciek beat me to it – see his great review here
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| Author | Peter Silver |
| ISBN | 0393062481 |
The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, and Covenentors, the Irish, the German, the French, the Welsh—groups that rarely intermingled...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1593080905 |
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
| Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
| ISBN | 0674023498 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.
Smallwood's...
| Author | John K. Thornton |
| ISBN | 0521627249 |
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World, this book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Author John Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European...
| Author | Alan Taylor |
| ISBN | 1400042658 |
In this deeply researched and clearly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. During the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution....
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0374521409 |
The first three works by Elie Wiesel are here brought together in one volume, where the terrifying truth of their vision, the stunning simplicity of their art, and the power of their unity achieve epic dimensions.
Night, first published in 1960, is Wiesel's true account of spiritual and national...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0385494327 |
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how...
