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79 produkter
Collecting Across Cultures
Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Av Daniela Bleichmar, Peter C. Mancall
E-bok, 2011
571 kr
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In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from …
Death by Effigy
A Case from the Mexican Inquisition
E-bok, 2012
489 kr
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On July 21, 1578, the Mexican town of Tecamachalco awoke to news of a scandal. A doll-like effigy hung from the door of the town's church. Its two-faced head had black chicken feathers instead of hair. Each mouth had a tongue sewn onto it, one with a forked end, the other with a gag tied around it. …
Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
Av Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though …
New World of Labor
The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
E-bok, 2013
504 kr
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The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center …
Biography and the Black Atlantic
Av Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet
E-bok, 2013
1007 kr
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In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and …
Bishop's Utopia
Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru
E-bok, 2014
806 kr
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In December 1788, in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo, fifty-one-year-old Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime MartÍnez CompaÑÓn stood surrounded by twenty-four large wooden crates, each numbered and marked with its final destination of Madrid. The crates contained carefully preserved zoological, …
Slaves and Englishmen
Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World
E-bok, 2014
504 kr
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Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched in law and practice, English men and women were well aware of the various forms of human bondage practiced in other nations and, in less …
Collecting Across Cultures
Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Av Daniela, Bleichmar, Daniela Bleichmar m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
461 kr
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In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from …
Death by Effigy
A Case from the Mexican Inquisition
Häftad, 2014
390 kr
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On July 21, 1578, the Mexican town of Tecamachalco awoke to news of a scandal. A doll-like effigy hung from the door of the town's church. Its two-faced head had black chicken feathers instead of hair. Each mouth had a tongue sewn onto it, one with a forked end, the other with a gag tied around it. …
New World of Labor
The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center …
Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
Av Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though …
Slaves and Englishmen
Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched in law and practice, English men and women were well aware of the various forms of human bondage practiced in other nations and, in less …
Daughters of the Trade
Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking …
Plantation Machine
Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
Av Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus
Häftad, 2018
398 kr
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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become more …
African Kings and Black Slaves
Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic
Häftad, 2020
284 kr
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A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with AfricaAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that …
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
Häftad, 2020
282 kr
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In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings …
Undercurrents of Power
Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
Av Kevin Dawson
Häftad, 2021
414 kr
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Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean. In those waterways, they became proficient in diverse maritime skills, while incorporating water and aquatics into …
Age of Intoxication
Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Häftad, 2021
340 kr
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Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs …
Intimate Bonds
Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Häftad, 2022
340 kr
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, …
New World of Labor
The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
Inbunden, 2013
1060 kr
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The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center …
Biography and the Black Atlantic
Av Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet
Inbunden, 2013
826 kr
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In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and …
Bishop's Utopia
Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru
Inbunden, 2014
670 kr
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In December 1788, in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo, fifty-one-year-old Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime MartÍnez CompaÑÓn stood surrounded by twenty-four large wooden crates, each numbered and marked with its final destination of Madrid. The crates contained carefully preserved zoological, …
Opened Letter
Networking in the Early Modern British World
Inbunden, 2014
651 kr
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By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colonial possessions and populations grew and more individuals moved around the globe, Britons both at …
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas
Av Stephanie Kirk, Sarah Rivett
Inbunden, 2014
802 kr
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Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled …
Temptations of Trade
Britain, Spain, and the Struggle for Empire
Inbunden, 2016
432 kr
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The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, …
Forbidden Passages
Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
Inbunden, 2016
592 kr
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish authorities restricted emigration to the Americas to those who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations. In doing so, they hoped to instill religious orthodoxy in the colonies and believed Muslim converts, or Moriscos, …
Plantation Machine
Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
Av Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus
Inbunden, 2016
563 kr
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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become more …
Intimate Bonds
Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Inbunden, 2016
1177 kr
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, …
Amsterdam's Atlantic
Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil
Inbunden, 2016
592 kr
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In 1624 the Dutch West India Company established the colony of Brazil. Only thirty years later, the Dutch Republic handed over the colony to Portugal, never to return to the South Atlantic. Because Dutch Brazil was the first sustained Protestant colony in Iberian America, the events there became …
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
Inbunden, 2017
413 kr
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In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings …
