Wars in the Atlantic World

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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How has warfare shaped the way humans live in the Atlantic World? Well, a lot. Military campaigns from the late Middle Ages to the Age of Revolution drove the development of technologies like ships, port facilities, fortresses, and roads. Crossing the ocean was made possible, connecting previously separate lands, nations and empires from Europe to West Africa and North and South America.

In this episode, Professor of Early Modern History Geoffrey Plank joins Dan to discuss how connecting the lands of Europe, West Africa and North and South America brought commerce, expansion, empires, the slave trade and more conflict on land and sea. They compare the European, African, and indigenous American experiences of warfare, violence, and military culture over a period of four centuries.

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Edited by Pete Dennis

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History. This is a treat. I've been looking forward to this one for
0:04.2	ages. I've been recently reading a brilliant book by Jeffrey Plancky's a professor of early
0:08.1	modern history at the University of East Anglia. It's all about the Atlantic Wars of the early
0:14.1	modern period. It's all about the gigantic, violent, savage, omnishambles that followed, basically
0:23.1	Christopher Columbus heading over to the Americas and the European powers piling in,
0:28.4	free-lancers piling in, states piling in, and it all just going completely crazy. This is a
0:35.1	podcast in which we talk about that impact of that transformation of global strategic geography
0:41.2	on the people involved, on the Africans that were enslaved and transported across to the new world,
0:46.9	on the indigenous peoples of America and Africa, of the Europeans, the sailors, the soldiers
0:52.7	who found themselves dealing with tropical diseases, Arctic temperatures in Canada, and starvation
0:59.3	on stormtost vessels in the Atlantic. It's a big canvas, this folks, get ready for it. If you like
1:06.0	listening to me get very overexcited by 18th century history, then fear not. Both of you will be
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1:45.2	Jeffrey Plank. We'll talk about the Atlantic world. You can enjoy this.
1:55.6	Jeffrey, thank you very much. Come on the podcast. Well, thanks for having me.
1:59.1	When this book lands on my doorstep, I've got to say it brought me extreme happiness. This is
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