| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel. Ed. by Peter A. Coclanis. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. xxii, 377 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-554-7.)

The analytical concept of an Atlantic world, influenced by the categorization established by Fernand Braudel for the Mediterranean, has been around for several decades. While lingering debate over the appropriateness of the term Atlantic world continues—largely by advocates of world- or global-systems analyses—the manifest viability of an increasingly integrated Atlantic community since 1492 cannot be denied. In Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713–1826 (1983), Peggy K. Liss demonstrated the many and devious ways in which formally autonomous empires conducted a necessary economic and ideological interrelationship. Throughout the history of the Americas, laws and practice consistently deviated. The situation was enormously fluid, and the differences between periphery and imperial center remained frustratingly unbridgeable. The thirteen essays in this highly informative volume make a powerful contribution to the notion of an integrated and coherent Atlantic community. They offer detailed and often surprisingly new information on commercial and economic activities both within and across imperial frontiers from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century.

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