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In: A borzoi book
In: The Charles K. Colver lectures, Brown University 1965
In: Borzoi book
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Volume 20, Issue 1, p. 19-44
ISSN: 2041-2827
When I was invited to participate in the conference marking the twentieth anniversary of Leiden's Centre for Overseas Expansion and to contribute to the conference's retrospection of recent scholarship on the history of overseas expansion, I happily agreed. And I agreed specifically to contribute a paper on what was rather casually, I think, called 'The Atlantic in the Ancien Régime'. Since I had been working, one way and another, in that area for a long time, I expected no difficulty in writing up a reasonable paper. But the more I thought about the subject, and the more I reviewed what had been done in recent studies of 'the Atlantic in the Ancien Régime' the more mysterious and interesting the question became and the more strongly I was led back to earlier antecedents in the literature. I had a growing feeling that something strange had happened, something that, oddly enough, I had myself been involved in without knowing it, something that I was in fact attempting to formulate in connection with an international seminar on Atlantic history that I will be directing over the next few years.
In: Europeans on the Move, p. 1-6