In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons, José L. Gasch-Tomás offers an account of the trade of Asian goods between colonial Spanish America and East Asia, and the distribution and consumption of
In ‘Another Jerusalem’: Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568) José-Juan López-Portillo offers a new approach to understanding the origins of viceregal pol
Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 makes an interdisciplinary contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of the long nineteenth century. It argues that the cultural dimensions
"In The Sun King's Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for cont
This volume puts together notions of political liberty that arose in the English, Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic world, commencing with their inception in the colonial period, following with the inde
In this volume, Fatah-Black untangles the ways in which metropolitan authorities were defied and evaded in the process of making Suriname a productive plantation colony between 1650 and 1800.
"Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portu
This title will be available online in its entirety in Open AccessDutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were fo
In British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760, Nabil Matar furnishes a list of the names of all captives in the British archive and presents a chronological study of the histor
Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World, profiles individuals who dramaticaly impacted and shaped a world that connected the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Each contributor
A map in the front matter identifies the major Atlantic world ports and places discussed in this volume, among them: New Amsterdam (later New York City), Havana, French Guiana, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos
La Fleur (history, College of William and Mary) needed to translate some crop names in a Dutchman's account of his voyage down the west coast of Africa, and discovered that there were no studies of cr
By looking at Dutch and Portuguese systems of settlement and trade in Western Africa, this book sheds new light on the formation of Dutch and Portuguese imperial frames, forms of commercial organisati
This book analyzes literary writings and inquisitorial testimonies produced by individuals of Jewish heritage who lived in the Iberian Atlantic during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuri
Noting the important role played by South Africa in the formation of the European idea of Africa during the long 18th century, Huigen (Dutch literature and cultural history, U. of Stellenbosch, South
Goodfriend (history, University of Denver), Schmidt (history, University of Washington) and Stott (art history, University of Denver) have edited this compilation of essays on the history of the Dutch
Most of the contributing historians and scholars of literature are American or British, but they consider the Spanish, French, and especially Dutch as well as British perspectives on Europe's connecti
Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products and prepared medicines; thereby throwing light on the relationsh
Drawing heavily on Inquisition sources, this book rereads race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth-century Iberian Atlantic world: Judeoco
Most accounts of the trans-Atlantic slave trade focus on the 18th and 19th centuries, and the Dutch, English, and French who dominated the trade during that period. Geographer Newson and historian Min
McIntyre (art history, U. of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio) and Phillips (art history, U. of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg) offer a collection of 17 essays on the visual representation of women in ea
From 1638-1655, Sweden maintained a colony in the region of the Delaware River on the east coast of the North American continent. In this study, Fur examines Swedish policies towards the Lenape and Su
In September 2001, the Freed Slaves: Exclusion or Integration conference in Nottingham, England drew historians from North America, the Caribbean, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and even London. From that g
The stereotype is that in exchange for a few trinkets, European traders were able to rob Africans, Asian, and Amerindians of their wealth and use it to establish the dominant economic position Europe
Jacobs (Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age, U. of Amsterdam) has here thoroughly revised his Een zegenrijk gewest. Nieuw-Naderland in de zeventiende eeuw, published by Prometheus/Bert Ba
The role of the trade and shipping in the Dutch economy during the 17th and 18th centuries has not been given due recognition of its importance, argue Postma (retired, history, Minnesota State U. at M
This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age throug
Because it embraced radical racial egalitarianism in 1835, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the quest for abolition and black freedom in the antebellum period. Today, residents, visitors, and s
