Women in Port : gendering communities, economies, and social networks in Atlantic Port cities, 1500-1800 /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Catterall, Douglas, Campbell, Jodi, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 25.
Temas:
Women > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Women > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions.
Femmes > Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire.
Femmes > Atlantique, Région de l' > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women
Women > Social conditions
Atlantic Ocean Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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