Migration in the Atlantic World

Migration in the Atlantic World


Here are some books collected for those who want to do research on Atlantic migration.

Armitage, David and Michael J.Braddick ed. The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
In this book, Armitage defines the concept of the Atlantic history from three perspectives, namely, transatlantic history, international history and regional & national history. These three dimensions are very essential for us to renew our understanding of the Atlantic history.

Anderson, Virginia. New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
I always think Virginia Anderson's book is very good, although her book is not so original as Bernard Bailyn's The Peopling of the British North Amrica. Anderson examines the Great Migration in the 17th century and its impact on British Americans in creating their society and culture in New England. For those who are very interested in New England history in the 17th and 18th century, it is a book we should take a look at it.

Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

 Voyages to the West: A Passage of the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1986)

Bailyn, Bernard, and Patricia L. Denault, eds. Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Bailyn is absolutely the most important one for those who want to explore migration in the Atlantic world. Bailyn's book is very original and creative, although his discussion on the migration is too narrow and his method is too traditional. His books are still worth of reading.



Games, Alison. Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1999)

Ned C. Landsman, Scotland and its First American Colony, 1680-1765 (Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1985).

Bernard Bailyn at Robert K. Merton at 100: Reflections & Recollections

Ned C. Landsman (ed.), Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800 (Lewisberg: 2001)

Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves,
Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Boston: Beacon, 2001.

Mancke, Elizabeth and Carole Shammas eds. The Creation of the British Atlantic
World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

Vicker, Daniel. A Companion to Colonial America (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2003)