Bridging the early modern Atlantic world people, products, and practices on the move / [electronic resource] :
[edited by] Caroline A. Williams
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009
- 1 online resource (xiv, 261 p.) : ill., maps
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-250) and index
Introduction : bridging the early modern Atlantic world / Caroline A. Williams -- Codfish, consumption, and colonization : the creation of the French Atlantic world during the sixteenth century / Laurier Turgeon -- Negotiating fortune : English merchants in early sixteenth-century Seville / Heather Dalton -- Interlopers in an intercultural zone? : early Scots ventures in the Atlantic world, 1630-1660 / Douglas Catterall -- 'A people so subtle' : Sephardic Jewish pioneers of the English West Indies / Natalie Zacek -- Subjects or allies : the contentious status of the Tupi Indians in Dutch Brazil, 1625-1654 / Mark Meuwese -- 'To transmit to posterity the virtue, lustre and glory of their ancestors' : Scottish pioneers in Darien, Panama / Mark Horton -- Controlling traders : slave coast strategies at Savi and Ouidah / Kenneth G. Kelly -- Walking the tightrope : female agency, religious practice, and the Portuguese inquisition on the Upper Guinea coast (seventeenth century) -- Philip J. Havik -- Slaves, convicts, and exiles: African travellers in the Portuguese Atlantic world, 1720-1750 / James H. Sweet -- The life of Alexander Alexander and the Spanish Atlantic, 1799-1822 / Matthew Brown