Bridging the early modern Atlantic world
Subtitle: people, products, and practices on the move
By: [edited by] Caroline A. Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Caroline, 1962-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780754666813; 9780754694670
Subjects: History, Modern; Acculturation -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Culture conflict -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bridging early modern Atlantic worlds / Caroline A. Williams; title: Codfish, consumption, and colonization: the creation of the French Atlantic world during the sixteenth century / Laurier Turgeon; title: Negotiating fortune: English merchants in early sixteenth-century Seville / Heather Dalton; title: Interlopers in an intercultural zone? early Scots ventures in the Atlantic world, 1630-1660 / Douglas Catterall; title: "A people so subtle": sephardic Jewish pioneers of the English West Indies / Natalie Zacek; title: Subjects or allies: the contentious status of the Tupi Indians in Dutch Brazil, 1625-1654 / Mark Meuwese; title: "To transmit to posterity the virtue, lustre and glory of their ancestors": Scottish pioneers in Darién / Mark Horton; title: Controlling traders: slave coast strategies at Savi and Ouidah / Kenneth G. Kelly; title: Walking the tightrope: female agency, religious practice, and the Portuguese inquisition on the upper Guinea coast (seventeenth century); title: Philip J. Havik; title: Slaves, convicts, and exiles: African travellers in the Portuguese Atlantic world, 1720-1750 / James H. Sweet; title: The life of Alexander Alexander and the Spanish Atlantic, 1799-1822 / Matthew Brown.