With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject this volume
inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas. Both case and
comparative studies of such historical cases as the silver slave and commodity trades and
whether ideas such as faith and democracy have as much impact as these merchandise flows
simultaneously challenge and strengthen the transatlantic paradigm. They permit transatlantic
relations to be stretched as far back as to the 8th Century in turn exposing transatlantic
flows hugging global threads while revealing the strength and size of several unaccounted
types of transatlantic transactions such as the north-south varieties.
