| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Bernard Bailyn. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 149. $18.95.

This volume contains two essays, each articulating a separate but linked vision of Atlantic history. The first, "The Idea of Atlantic History," provides a reworking of an essay Bernard Bailyn published ten years ago in Itinerario (1996). Bailyn locates Atlantic history's origins in the political and diplomatic world of the mid-twentieth century. He draws extensively on continental European scholarship (especially French and German). Although Bailyn argues that Atlantic history emerged from a transformed transatlantic world of the twentieth century, he adamantly rejects any possible contemporary political impulse toward Atlantic history, insisting that the framework grew naturally, organically, prodded by what James Lockhart referred to as "the inner logic of the subject" (p. 44). Bailyn's Atlantic surfaced out of a "broadening vision" (p. 46) among historians who specialized in all aspects of European expansion and settlement.

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