JBH471H5S: Worlds Colliding: The History and Ecology of Exploration, Contact, and Exchange

– Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE-1500CE
– Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1: Foundations

The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices - to mention some of the key agents - around and within the Atlantic basin.

This book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration, migration and cultural encounters.

Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries--unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution.