Transatlantic History: Locating and Naming an Emergent Field of Study
Abstract
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This article outlines the contours of transatlantic history and identifies some of the works that fit within its parameters. It argues that transatlantic history is a mid-level historiographical unit, encompassing early modern Atlantic history in addition to transatlantic phenomena of the modern era, while at the same time representing a subfield of transnational and world history. As a field of practice it is at least as old as Atlantic history, but in the last two decades a large number of historical studies have adopted the label “transatlantic.” Additionally, an even larger body of self-identified transnational scholarship is transatlantic in form and content but not in name. By identifying them as such and defining the parameters of this field, we can advance it as a collective project of exploration and theorization.