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List of figures List of maps Preface to the first edition Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Rise and Transformation of the Atlantic World Wim Klooster Part 1 PERSPECTIVES Chapter 1: Life on the Margins: Boston’s Anxieties of Influence in the Atlantic World Mark A. Peterson Chapter 2: Lisbon as a Strategic Haven in the Atlantic World Timothy Walker Part 2 EUROPEAN MIGRATION Chapter 3: Adventurers Across the Atlantic: English Migration to the New World, 1580–1780 Meaghan N. Duff Chapter 4: Searching for Prosperity: German Migration to the British American Colonies, 1680–1780 Rosalind J. Beiler Part 3 THE AFRICAN DIMENSION Chapter 5: Identity and Migration: The Atlantic in Comparative Perspective David Eltis Chapter 6: Trans-Atlantic Transformations: The Origins and Identity of Africans in the Americas Paul E. Lovejoy Part 4 IMAGINATION Chapter 7: Whose Centers and Peripheries? Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History in Atlantic Perspective Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Chapter 8: The Purpose of Pirates, or Assimilating New Worlds in the Renaissance Benjamin Schmidt Part 5 REVOLUTION AND ABOLITION Chapter 9: Un-Silencing the Haitian Revolution and Redefining the Revolutionary Era Jeremy D. Popkin Chapter 10: Anthony Benezet, James Ramsay, and the Political Economic Attack on the British Slave Trade David Beck Ryden Notes Index