Part I. Explorations and first contacts
The Atlantic world before 1492
Europe: a new age of trade and travel
Part II. Colonization and conquest
Spanish colonial institutions in New Spain
The colonization of Brazil
Colonial settlements in Northern America and the Caribbean
Part III: Connections, journeys, and war
Atlantic trade and empire
Part IV: The age of ideas
New forms of resistance and expansion
The abolition of slavery in the Atlantic
Part IV: The paradox of modernity
Atlantic societies in the nineteenth century