A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese territories further south.

Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction; L.Howsam & J.Raven Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print; C.Armstrong Fiction and Civility Across the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus; J.Mylander Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic; P.Whitman Hunter Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancient Régime; F.Melançon   Bookmen, Naturalists, and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730-60; N.Wrightson The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection; J.D.Goodfriend Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800; J.Raven 'A Small Cargoe for Tryal': Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century; M.O'Connor From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel; S.G.T.Vasconcelos 'Learning from Abroad?': Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System in Independent Spanish America; E.R.Vera Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840-60; A.Fyfe 'The Power of Steam': Antislavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844-60; R.J.Scholnick Conclusion; L.Howsam & J.Raven