1. Armitage, D.: ‘Three concepts of Atlantic history’, in Armitage, D. and Braddick, Michael J.: The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 11, 16–17.
2. For a recent Atlantic World take on state formation, see Chet, Guy: The ocean is a wilderness: Atlantic piracy and the limits of state authority, 1688–1856, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
3. For an Atlantic analysis of historical geography, see Benton, Lauren: A search for sovereignty: law and geography in European empires, 1400–1900, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
4. Tilly, Charles: Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1984, pp. 74–6.
5. For a further discussion of non-imperial, non-Eurocentric Atlantic history, see Greene, Jack P, ‘Hemispheric history and Atlantic history’, in Greene, Jack P. and Morgan, Philip D., Atlantic history: a critical appraisal, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 299–315.