Includes bibliographical references and index.

The present state of Atlantic history / Philip D. Morgan and Jack P. Greene -- The Atlantic Ocean and Its contemporary meanings, 1492-1808 / Joyce E. Chaplin -- The Spanish Atlantic system / Kenneth J. Andrien -- The Portuguese Atlantic, 1415-1808 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The Brit ish Atlantic / Trevor Burnard -- The French Atlantic / Laurent Dubois - - The Dutch Atlantic : from provincialism to globalism / Benjamin Schmi dt -- Indigenous America and the limits of the Atlantic world, 1493-182 5 / Amy Turner Bushnell -- Africa and the Atlantic, c. 1450 to c. 1820 / Philip D. Morgan -- Europe and the Atlantic / Carla Rahn Phillips -- From Atlantic history to a continental approach / Peter H. Wood -- Hemi spheric history and Atlantic history / Jack P. Greene -- Atlantic histo ry and global history / Nicholas Canny -- Beyond Atlantic history / Pet er A. Coclanis.