Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Comparing Atlantics -- A Catholic Atlantic / Allan Greer, Kenneth Mills -- The devil in the new world : a transnational perspective / Jorge Ca�nizares-Esguerra -- Jews in the early modern Atlantic : crossing boundaries, keeping faith / Erik R. Seeman -- "Our Indians" : European empires and the history of the native American South / Claudio Saunt -- Navigating the mid-Atlantic, or what Gil Eanes achieved / Patricia Seed -- Part II: Beyond the Atlantic -- Empires in their global context, ca. 1500 to ca.1800 / Felipe Fern�andez-Armesto -- ReOrienting Atlantic history : the global dimensions of the "Western" rice trade / Peter A. Coclanis -- African diasporas and the Atlantic / Pier M. Larson -- Piracy in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean / Claire S. Schen -- Pushing the Atlantic envelope : interoceanic perspectives on Atlantic history / Reed Ueda -- Part III: The evolving Atlantic -- Modernization, modernity, and the trans/formation of the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century / Jos�e C. Moya -- Continuity and crisis : Cuban slavery, Spanish colonialism, and the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Black identities in the formation of the Atlantic world / Jason Young -- Ireland, Latin America, and an Atlantic liberation theology / Patrick F. McDevitt.