Women in Port: gendering communities, economies, and social networks in Atlantic Port cities, 1500-1800
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill 2012
Schriftenreihe:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) v. 25
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Mother Courage and her sisters : women's worlds -- In the premodern Atlantic / Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell -- Metropolitan frameworks -- The women of early modern Triana : life, death and survival -- Strategies in Seville's maritime district / Alexandra Parma Cook -- Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic : women and woollens in the seventeenth century / Gordon DesBrisay -- "Ports, petticoats and power?" : women and work in early-national Philadelphia / Sheryllynne Haggerty -- Between lady and slave : white working women in the eighteenth-century Leeward Islands / Natalie Zacek -- Traders and travelers -- The price of assimilation : Spanish and Portuguese women in French cities, 1500-1650 / Gayle Brunelle -- Capable entrepreneurs : the women merchants and traders of new Netherland / Kim Todt and Martha Dickinson Shattuck -- "Can she be a woman?" : gender and contraband in the revolutionary Atlantic / Ernst Pijning -- Lives on the seas : women's trajectories in port cities of the Portuguese overseas empire / Junia Ferreira Furtado -- Interactions and intermediaries -- Wives, brokers, and laborers : women at Cape coast, 1750-1800 / Ty M. Reese -- Gendering the black Atlantic : women's agency in coastal trade settlements in the Guinea Bissau region / Philip J. Havik -- Housekeepers, merchants, rentieres: free women of color in the port cities of colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750-1790 / Dominique Rogers and Stewart King -- Conclusion: women in th port cities of the early modern Atlantic world : retrospect and prospect / Noble David Cook
Bringing together work by Atlantic world scholars on the cutting edge of their respective fields, Women in Port's practical application of microhistorical approaches achieves a depth and breadth that helps reframe our understanding of women's possibilities in the Atlantic world
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