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A Brief History of the Atlantic

Jeremy Black

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world.

Black discusses the importance of the Atlantic in relation to world history as well as addressing topics such as those bravest to attempt to cross the ocean before Columbus the beginnings of slavery from 1400-1600 the struggle for control between empires in the 1600s the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables the battle of the Falkland and the Cold War.

Black also touches on the Atlantic we know today and the struggles it faces due to urgent global issues including climate change pollution and the trials of the economic rise in the Indo-Pacific world.

If you have ever yearned to know more about this famed and vital ocean this clear and concise history will be a key read as one of the first of its kind on its evolution to becoming an established world ocean.

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  • Classification : History
  • Pub Date : JUN 2, 2022
  • Imprint : Robinson
  • Page Extent : 288
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781472145918
  • Price : INR 750
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Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is a British historian, writer and former Professor of History at the University of Exeter. As the author of over 180 books, his work adds up to the most sustained presentation of British history in recent decades. He is a major exponent of military, diplomatic and cartographic history and has been important in helping the British to look at their past, as well as in representing British history to foreign audiences. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, US.

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