Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, Products, and Practices on the Move, ed. Caroline A. Williams
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Caroline Williams’s Introduction and the ten chapters by scholars from Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and Portugal have transformed the papers of a conference held in Bristol in 2005 into a significant contribution to the historiography of the Atlantic World. The debate concerning the validity of this concept continues—given that it appears to involve the notion of an Age of Revolutions across this political sphere in the period from the 1770s to the 1820s. Parallel processes, mutual influences, and repeated contact between different races and ethnicities have suggested the existence of a common space encompassing Western Europe, West Africa and the eastern seaboards of North and South America. As result, we can no longer understand Western European history from its European context alone. Further debate has arisen concerning the relative impact of transatlantic contact and its periodisation. The editor strongly argues for early impact: ‘the unprecedented circulation of peoples, beliefs, and ideas that characterized the early modern Atlantic was driven and paralleled by an equally unprecedented circulation of goods …’ (p. 22). She sees ‘an overlapping and interconnected Atlantic world’, a ‘diversity of peoples’, and ‘countless points of contact across the Atlantic basin’ (pp. 30–31).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".