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Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World - People, Products, and Practices on the Move (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World - People, Products, and Practices on the Move (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten
original essays by an international group of scholars exploring the
complex outcomes of the intermingling of people, circulation of
goods, exchange of information, and exposure to new ideas that are
the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from
the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland at the beginning of
the sixteenth century to the end of the wars of independence in
Spanish South America, c. 1830, and encompassing a range of
disciplinary approaches, the contributors direct particular
attention to regions, communities, and groups whose activities in,
and responses to, an ever-more closely bound Atlantic world remain
relatively under-represented in the literature. Some of the
chapters focus on the experience of Europeans, including French
consumers of Newfoundland cod, English merchants forming families
in Spanish Seville, and Jewish refugees from Dutch Brazil making
the Caribbean island of Nevis their home. Others focus on the ways
in which the populations with whom Europeans came into contact,
enslaved, or among whom they settled - the Tupi peoples of Brazil,
the Kriston women of the west African port of Cacheu, among others
- adapted to and were changed by their interactions with previously
unknown peoples, goods, institutions, and ideas. Together with the
substantial Introduction by the editor which reviews the
significance of the field as a whole, these essays capture the
complexity and variety of experience of the countless men and women
who came into contact during the period, whilst highlighting and
illustrating the porous and fluid nature, in practice, of the early
modern Atlantic world.
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