Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and Director of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, UK. Among his major works are The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016), Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (2015), Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004) and Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776 (2002). He is also the Editor in Chief of the Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History.

Part One: History and Historiography
1. Introduction: The Idea of Atlantic History
2. The Atlantic and World History
Part Two: The Atlantic World Over Time
3. The Columbian Exchange
4. The Spanish Lake, 1560-1800
5. Old Worlds Respond 1444-1750
6. Contact, Invasion and Crisis, 1600-1750
7. The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1830
Part Three: Places in the Atlantic World
8. West Africa
9. Western Europe
10. South and Central America and the Caribbean
11. North America
12. The Plantation World
Part Four: Themes in Atlantic History
13. War in the Atlantic
14. Movement of Things: People and Goods
15. Movement of Ideas: The Atlantic in Global Consciousness
16. Conclusion: From the Atlantic World to Globalization to Nationalism
Notes
Index