Early Modern Atlantic Cities

This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality.

1. Introduction; 2. Cities and Atlantic Encounters; 3. Cities and Atlantic Empires; 4. Cities and Atlantic Freedoms. 5. Conclusion; Bibliography.