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Faces of Freedom
The Manumission and Emancipation of Slaves in Old World and New World Slavery
Inbunden, 2006
2693 kr
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This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century. The aim …
Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2007
2620 kr
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The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry - a time of triumphant technological progress. In fact, it was an age of thwarted ambition, when the take-up of new technologies proved frustratingly slow. The eighteenth century was more accurately the age of …
Fulfilling God’s Mission
The Two Worlds of Dominie Everardus Bogardus, 1607-1647
Inbunden, 2007
2700 kr
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This biography recalls the fascinating life of the second Reformed minister of New Amsterdam (present-day New York), Everardus Bogardus, a poor but gifted youth who worked himself upward into the ministry. The first part of the book provides an in-depth analysis of his mystical experience as a …
Between Empires
Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Economy, 1550-1630
Inbunden, 2008
2029 kr
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This study examines the wholesale trade in sugar from Brazil to markets in Europe. The principal market was northwestern Europe, but for much of the time between 1550 and 1630 Portugal was drawn into the conflict between Habsburg Spain and the Dutch Republic. In spite of political obstacles, the …
Knowledge and Colonialism
Eighteenth-Century Travellers in South Africa
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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The establishment of a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century and an expansion of the sphere of colonial influence in the eighteenth century made South Africa the only part of sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans could travel with relative ease deep into the interior. As a …
Through Cracks in the Wall
Modern Inquisitions and New Christian Letrados in the Iberian Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2010
2400 kr
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Recent comparative, interdisciplinary scholarship has underscored the Inquisition’s function in the imperial and colonial Iberian world, particularly in relation to the development of modernity. This book illustrates and enhances these debates on the Inquisition’s relationship to imperialism, …
New World of Gold and Silver
Av John J. TePaske, Kendall W. Brown
Inbunden, 2010
2472 kr
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Colonial Latin America was famed for the precious metals plundered by the conquistadores and the gold and silver extracted from its mines. Historians and economists have attempted to determine the amount of bullion produced and its impact on the colonies themselves and the emerging early-modern …
Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa
Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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More than fifty years have passed since Charles Boxer wrote his major works on the Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic and attributed the successful takeover of North-eastern Brazil, Angola, São Tomé and the Gold Coast forts by the WIC to the superior naval power of the Dutch.This book …
Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade
Dutch-Indigenous Alliances in the Atlantic World, 1595-1674
Av Mark Meuwese
Inbunden, 2011
3023 kr
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Recent studies on Dutch encounters with indigenous peoples in the Americas and West Africa have taken a narrow regional approach rather than a comparative Atlantic perspective. This book, based on Dutch archival records and primary and secondary sources in multiple languages, integrates indigenous …
Fusion Foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic Era
Inbunden, 2012
2458 kr
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As most people in Atlantic-era West Africa—as in contemporary Europe and the Americas—were farmers, fields and gardens were the primary terrain where they engaged the opportunities and challenges of nascent globalization. Agricultural changes and culinary cross-currents from the Gold Coast indicate …
Peter Thonning and Denmark's Guinea Commission
A Study in Nineteenth-Century African Colonial Geography
Inbunden, 2012
4704 kr
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Several years before Denmark legislated against the Atlantic slave trade in 1792, the government, anticipating the decline of production in the Danish West Indies as a consequence, embarked on a policy of agricultural colonization in West Africa. Peter Thonning, a young natural historian of the …
Women in Port
Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800
Inbunden, 2012
3090 kr
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In the last few decades the scholarship on women’s roles and women’s worlds in the Atlantic basin c. 1400-1850 has grown considerably. Much of this work has understandably concentrated on specific groups of women, women living in particular regions or communities, or women sharing a common status …
Atlantic Biographies
Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World
Av Jeffrey A. Fortin, Mark Meuwese
Inbunden, 2013
2971 kr
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This volume uses a biography-as-history approach to illuminate the interconnectedness of the peoples of the Americas, West Africa, and Europe. Contributors highlight individuals' and people's experiences made possible by their participation in the creation of an Atlantic world, where conflict, …
British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760
Av Nabil Matar
Inbunden, 2014
2476 kr
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British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760 provides the first study of British captives in the North African Atlantic and Mediterranean, from the reign of Elizabeth I to George II. Based on extensive archival research in the United Kingdom, Nabil Matar furnishes the names of …
Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800
Linking Empires, Bridging Borders
Av Gert Oostindie, Jessica V. Roitman
Inbunden, 2014
2038 kr
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Dutch Atlantic Connections focuses on the Dutch dimension of the integrated Atlantic World between 1680 and 1800. In recent years, it has increasingly become clear that Dutch activities in this Atlantic world were of far greater significance than historians hitherto assumed. This volume illustrates …
Networks and Trans-Cultural Exchange
Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867
Av David Richardson, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Inbunden, 2014
2472 kr
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Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AwardStudies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents …
White Lies and Black Markets
Evading Metropolitan Authority in Colonial Suriname, 1650-1800
Inbunden, 2015
2338 kr
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In White Lies and Black Markets, Fatah-Black offers a new account of the colonization of Suriname—one of the major European plantation colonies on the Guiana Coast—in the period between 1650-1800. While commonly portrayed as an isolated tropical outpost, this study places the colony in the context …
Sun King's Atlantic
Drugs, Demons and Dyestuffs in the Atlantic World, 1640 - 1730
Inbunden, 2017
1486 kr
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In The Sun King’s Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for contemporaries at the time, Africa and America were omnipresent throughout early modern France: in the …
"Another Jerusalem"
Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535 - 1568)
Inbunden, 2017
2472 kr
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In ‘Another Jerusalem’: Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568) José-Juan López-Portillo offers a new approach to understanding why the most densely populated and culturally sophisticated regions of Mesoamerica accepted the authority of Spanish viceroys. …
Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru
Apothecaries, Science and Society
Inbunden, 2017
2136 kr
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Based on extensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Italy, Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products, prepared medicines, and found their place in society. In the book, Newson argues that …
Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons
Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565–1650
Inbunden, 2018
2459 kr
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Studies of the trade between the Atlantic World and Asia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries typically focus on the exchanges between Atlantic European countries – especially Portugal, the Netherlands and England – and Asia across the Cape route. In The Atlantic World and the Manila …
Lobbying in Company
Economic Interests and Political Decision Making in the History of Dutch Brazil, 1621–1656
Inbunden, 2020
2030 kr
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In Lobbying in Company, Joris van den Tol argues that people made a difference in the Dutch West India Company colony in Brazil (1630–1654). Through a combination of petitions, personal relations, and public opinion, individuals were able to exercise influence on the decision-making process …
Mastering the Worst of Trades
England’s Early Africa Companies and their Traders, 1618–1672
Inbunden, 2021
2190 kr
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This book investigates the Guinea Company and its members, aiming to understand the genealogy of several major changes taking place in the English Atlantic and in the Anglo-Africa trade in the seventeenth century and beyond. Little attention has been paid to the companies that preceded the Royal …
Dissimulated Trade
Northern European Timber Merchants in Seville (1574–1598)
Inbunden, 2022
1861 kr
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In A Dissimulated Trade, Germán Jiménez-Montes sheds light on the role of foreigners in the Spanish empire. Making use of the rich collection of notarial deeds available at the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla, this book examines how a group of Dutch, Flemish and German merchants came to …
