Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean
Subtitle: religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit
By: Kristen Block
Series: Early American places
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780820338675; 9780820338682
Subjects: Social conditions; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Isabel.; title: "If her soul was condemned, it would be the authorities' fault"; title: Contesting the boundaries of antichristian cruelty in Cartagena de Indias; title: Imperial intercession and master-slave relations in Spanish Caribbean hinterlands; title: Law, religion, social contract, and slavery's daily negotiations; title: Nicolas.; title: "To live and die as a Catholic Christian"; title: Northern European Protestants in the Spanish Caribbean; title: Empire, bureaucracy, and escaping the Spanish inquisition; title: Conversion, coercion, and tolerance in Old and New Worlds; title: Henry.; title: "Such as will truck for trade with darksome things"; title: Cromwellian political economy and the pursuit of New World promise; title: Plunder, masculinity and the politics of economic exclusion; title: Anxieties of interracial alliances, black resistance, and the specter of slavery; title: Yaff & Nell.; title: "He hath made all nations of one blood"; title: Quakers, slavery, and the challenges of radical universalism; title: Evangelization and insubordination : authority and stability in Quaker plantations; title: The Protestant ethic and the Society of Friends : ambiguous Caribbean legacy; title: Conclusion  : cynicism and redemption.; title: Religion, empire and the Atlantic moral economy at the turn of the 18th century.