ABSTRACT
What is meant by the term ‘Atlantic World’ and how has its usage evolved in the last thirty years? If ‘Atlantic history’ has entered its fourth decade, what is left of the intellectual project inaugurated in the 1980s by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard and Jack Greene at Johns Hopkins? How should the Braudelian ambitions of the longue durée of Atlantic regional history sit with postcolonial explorations of the African and Native American experiences, which are by their nature punctuated by political narratives?
