An Introduction: The Present State of Atlantic History, Philip D. Morgan and Jack P. Greene. 1. The Atlantic Ocean and Its Contemporary Meanings, 1492-1808, Joyce E. Chaplin (Harvard University). Section One: New Atlantic Worlds. 2. The Spanish Atlantic System, Kenneth J. Andrien (Ohio State University). 3. The Portuguese Atlantic, 1415-1808, A. J. R. Russell-Wood (Johns Hopkins University). 4. The British Atlantic, Trevor Burnard (University of Warwick, UK). 5. The French Atlantic, Laurent Dubois (Duke University). 6. The Dutch Atlantic: Provincialism and Globalism, Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington). Section Two: Old Worlds and the Atlantic. 7. Indigenous America and the Limits of the Atlantic World, 1493-1825, Amy Turner Bushnell (John Carter Brown Library, RI). 8. Africa and the Atlantic, c. 1450 to c. 1820, Philip D. Morgan (Johns Hopkins University). 9. Europe and the Atlantic, Carla Rahn Phillips (University of Minnesota). Section Three: Competing and Complementary Perspectives. 10. From Atlantic History to Continental History, Peter H. Wood (Duke University). 11. Hemispheric History and Atlantic History, Jack P. Greene (Johns Hopkins University). 12. Atlantic History and Global History, Nicholas Canny (National University of Ireland, Galway). 13. Beyond Atlantic History, Peter A. Coclanis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).