Books in the New World in the Atlantic World series

Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men from colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a profit-driven merchant-planter class in the 17th century to genteel plantation owners in the 18th century.

This text tells of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World. In 1807, to escape an invading Napoleonic army, the Portuguese Prince Regent and 10,000 functionaries set sail for Brazil. Following the transfer of the court, Rio de Janeiro, became a "tropical Versailles".

This innovative volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing the latest developments in historiography of the period.

This innovative volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing the latest developments in historiography of the period.

In this volume Kenneth Maxwell collects some of his most significant writings, following Portugal's imperial journal, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the coast of Asia to the mouth of the Red Sea.

This work presents a comparative history arguing that differences in the political cultures of Canada and the United States have their origins in changes in the governance of the British Empire in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

This work takes a fresh new look at the political culture of the Spanish monarchy and investigates the politics of imperial rule and viceregal power in 17th century Mexico as well as the construction of the colonial state.

An engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 16th century.