Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction to the Second Edition: The Atlantic Paradigm Matures -- Introduction to the First Edition: Beyond the Line: Nations, Oceans, Hemispheres -- Strategies for Instructors -- Part I Comparing Atlantics -- 1 A Catholic Atlantic -- 2 The Devil in the New World: A Transnational Perspective -- 3 Jews in the Early Modern Atlantic: Crossing Boundaries, Keeping Faith -- 4 "Our Indians": European Empires and the History of the Native American South -- 5 Navigating the Mid-Atlantic -- or, What Gil Eanes Achieved -- Part II Beyond the Atlantic -- 6 Empires in Their Global Context, c. 1500-c. 1800 -- 7 ReOrienting Atlantic History: The Global Dimensions of the "Western" Rice Trade -- 8 African Diasporas and the Atlantic -- 9 Piracy in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean -- 10 Pushing the Atlantic Envelope: Interoceanic Perspectives on Atlantic History -- Part III The Evolving Atlantic -- 11 Modernization, Modernity, and the Trans/formation of the Atlantic World in the Nineteenth Century -- 12 Continuity and Crisis: Cuban Slavery, Spanish Colonialism, and the Atlantic World in the Nineteenth Century -- 13 Black Identities in the Formation of the Atlantic World -- 14 Ireland, Latin America, and an Atlantic Liberation Theology -- Index