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  • - Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru
    af Emily Berquist Soule
    591,95 kr.

    Based on intensive archival research and the unique visual data of more than a thousand extraordinary watercolors, The Bishop's Utopia seamlessly weaves cultural history, natural history, art, and imperial politics into a cinematic retelling of the life of Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martinez Companon and northern Peru in the 1780s.

  • - Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
    af Jennifer L. Palmer
    234,95 - 933,95 kr.

    Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds shows how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.

  • - Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
    af Kevin Dawson
    388,95 - 983,95 kr.

    Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills-swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing-to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.

  • - Political Ecology in the English Atlantic
    af Keith Pluymers
    513,95 kr.

    No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.

  • af Peter C. Mancall
    232,95 - 297,95 kr.

    Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic reveals how Europeans and Native Americans devised ways to understand the environment. Drawing on paintings, oral history, early printed books, and other cultural artifacts, Peter C. Mancall argues that human understanding of nature played a central role in the emergence of the modern world.

  • - Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
     
    382,95 kr.

    Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South America, each of the fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures explores a specific aspect of the history of collecting, collections, or collectors in the early modern period.

  • - Maritime Practices and Global History
     
    398,95 kr.

    A World at Sea sharpens and expands our understanding of how the maritime world contributed to global transformations in the early modern world, from inventing knowledge-making practices to pioneering new ways of organizing labor to legal experiments that spanned land and sea.

  • - Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic
    af Herman L. Bennett
    232,95 - 658,95 kr.

    Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as simple economic transactions: rather, according to Herman L. Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics.

  • - Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science
     
    649,95 kr.

    Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age of translation across linguistic, cultural, and geographical boundaries. Contributors highlight the vital roles that Native Americans, Africans, and European Catholics played in the global history of science.

  • - Origins of the Global Drug Trade
    af Benjamin Breen
    1.029,95 kr.

    From the sickly sweet tobacco that helped finance the Atlantic slave trade to the inebriating cannabis that East Indies merchants sold in coffeehouses, drugs have been entangled with science and commodification for five centuries. The Age of Intoxication explores the origins, and continuing impact, of the first global era of drugs.

  • - Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
    af Trevor Burnard & John Garrigus
    318,95 - 477,95 kr.

    Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus trace how the plantation machine developed between 1748 and 1788 and was perfected against a backdrop of almost constant external war and imperial competition.

  • - Networking in the Early Modern British World
    af Lindsay O'Neill
    273,95 kr.

    By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the British became an early networking society, relying on letters to maintaining necessary social networks that British global expansion and mobility threatened to disconnect.

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    691,95 kr.

    In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

  • - Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
    af Karoline P. Cook
    492,95 kr.

    Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos-Christian converts from Islam-in the early modern Americas, and how their presence challenged notions of what it meant to be Spanish as the Atlantic empire expanded.

  • - A Case from the Mexican Inquisition
    af Luis R. Corteguera
    318,95 kr.

    On July 21, 1578, a small Mexican town awoke to the news of a scandal. Nailed to the door of its church was a double-faced effigy denouncing a neighbor as a Jew who should burn at the stake. Nine trials over the course of four years revealed a story of dishonor, revenge, and the Inquisition's relentless determination to defend its symbols.

  • - Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World
    af Michael Guasco
    318,95 kr.

    Michael Guasco traces the broad spectrum of ways slavery shaped the way Englishmen and Anglo-Americans thought about and interacted with the world even before the rise of plantation-based economies.

  • - Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast
    af Pernille Ipsen
    318,95 kr.

    Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, Daughters of the Trade uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.

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    323,95 kr.

    In The Black Urban Atlantic, eleven original essays by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America chronicle the black experience in Atlantic ports, providing a rich and diverse portrait of the ways in which Africans experienced urban life during the era of plantation slavery.

  • - Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil
    af Michiel van Groesen
    492,95 kr.

    Amsterdam's Atlantic puts Dutch Brazil back on the front pages and argues that the way the Amsterdam media constructed Atlantic events was a key element in the transformation of public opinion in Europe.

  • - Britain, Spain, and the Struggle for Empire
    af Adrian Finucane
    513,95 kr.

    The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war.

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    653,95 kr.

    Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities. Essays from across disciplines explore the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestantism and Catholicism.

  • - The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
    af Simon P. Newman
    318,95 - 838,95 kr.

    A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America.

  • - Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825
    af Aviva Ben-Ur
    653,95 kr.

    Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Dutch colony of Suriname-a place where Jews, most of Iberian origin, established the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world and enjoyed various liberties, including the right to convert their slaves to Judaism.

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