A path in the mighty waters : shipboard life and Atlantic crossings to the New World /
"This book tells the story of how people experienced the eighteenth-century crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, exploring the transformative journey undertaken by the thousands of Europeans who journeyed in search of a better life. Stephen Berry shows how the ships, on which passengers were contain...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book tells the story of how people experienced the eighteenth-century crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, exploring the transformative journey undertaken by the thousands of Europeans who journeyed in search of a better life. Stephen Berry shows how the ships, on which passengers were contained in close quarters for months at a time, operated as compressed "frontiers," where diverse groups encountered one another and established new patterns of social organization. As he argues that experiences aboard ship served as a profound conversion experience for travelers, both spiritually and culturally, Berry reframes the history of Atlantic migrations, giving the ocean and the ship a more prominent role in Atlantic history. The ocean was more than a backdrop for human events: it actively shaped historical experiences by furnishing a dissociative break from normal patterns of life and a formative stage in travelers' processes of collective identification"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300210255 0300210256 |