Bridging the early modern Atlantic world people, products, and practices on the move /
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten essays exploring the outcomes of the intermingling of people, circulation of goods, and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland to the...
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : bridging the early modern Atlantic world / Caroline A. Williams
- Codfish, consumption, and colonization : the creation of the French Atlantic world during the sixteenth century / Laurier Turgeon
- Negotiating fortune : English merchants in early sixteenth-century Seville / Heather Dalton
- Interlopers in an intercultural zone? : early Scots ventures in the Atlantic world, 1630-1660 / Douglas Catterall
- 'A people so subtle' : Sephardic Jewish pioneers of the English West Indies / Natalie Zacek
- Subjects or allies : the contentious status of the Tupi Indians in Dutch Brazil, 1625-1654 / Mark Meuwese
- 'To transmit to posterity the virtue, lustre and glory of their ancestors' : Scottish pioneers in Darien, Panama / Mark Horton
- Controlling traders : slave coast strategies at Savi and Ouidah / Kenneth G. Kelly
- Walking the tightrope : female agency, religious practice, and the Portuguese inquisition on the Upper Guinea coast (seventeenth century)
- Philip J. Havik
- Slaves, convicts, and exiles: African travellers in the Portuguese Atlantic world, 1720-1750 / James H. Sweet
- The life of Alexander Alexander and the Spanish Atlantic, 1799-1822 / Matthew Brown.