Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825 (The Early Modern Americas) 9780812297041

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825 9780812297041

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Dutch colony of Suriname—a place whe

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Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World 9004689869, 9789004689862

This volume explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of 'business news' in the early modern Atlan

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Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World (The Early Modern Americas) 1512826499, 9781512826494

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of the At

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Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World 9780822387466, 0822387468

This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world.

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The slave trade and culture in the Bight of Biafra: an African society in the Atlantic world 9781107662209, 9780521883474, 9780511923029

The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold

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Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas 9780812290288

Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and b

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Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas 9780812246544, 2014013134

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Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions: The Early Modern Atlantic World 9780812208047

In this volume, scholars from three continents trace the role of dreams in the cultural transitions of the early modern

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The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas 9780300129472

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations an

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Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World 0807165085, 9780807165089

In Treating the Public, Rachael Ball presents a comparative history of commercial theater, public opinion, and charitabl

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