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" Atlantic Ocean : "
Martin W. Sandler ; foreword by Dennis Reinhartz.
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BL
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845152
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Sandler, Martin W.
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Atlantic Ocean : : the illustrated history of the ocean that changed the world /\ Martin W. Sandler ; foreword by Dennis Reinhartz.
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New York :: Sterling,, ©2008.
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xi, 468 pages :: illustrations (some color), color maps ;; 27 cm
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1402747241
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: 9781402747243
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-459) and index.
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| Contents
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The Atlantic : the sea of darkness -- Exploration and discovery : Europeans encounter a new world -- Impact of the new world : European and Native American cultures collide -- Colonization : settling a new world -- Slavery : inhuman bondage -- The American Revolution : cutting ties across the Atlantic -- The impact of the American Revolution : a new model for government -- The Industrial Revolution : mechanization and the Atlantic world -- New ships, new commerce : a new age of Atlantic trade -- The great tide of immigration : a historic transfer of cultures -- The Atlantic world confirmed : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Presents an illustrated examination of the Atlantic Ocean and the transformative role it has played as a corridor for the exchange of people, technologies, ideas, goods, and cultures for over two thousand years as exploration and discovery helped in the growth of global commerce.
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Ocean and civilization.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Ocean and civilization.
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Atlantic Ocean, Discovery and exploration.
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Atlantic Ocean, History.
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Afrika
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Amerika
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Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlantischer Ozean
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Atlantischer Raum
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Europa
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Europa.
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| Dewey Classification
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551.46/13
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911.163
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CB465.S26 2008
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q909.09821 S217a
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NK 1300rvk
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