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Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World, profiles individuals who dramaticaly impacted and shaped a world that connected the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Each contributor sketches a biography that demonstrates how important individuals were to creating and imagining the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fortin, Jeffrey A., Meuwese, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Colección:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 27.
Temas:
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
Biography.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Biographies.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire.
Atlantic Ocean Region
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Atlantic sojourners
  • Pierre Biard: priest and pirate of Mount Desert Island / Laura M. Chmielewski
  • Thomas Morton / Charlotte Carrington
  • Alexander von Humboldt, his scientific expedition through the Americas and the impact of his Atlantic experiences / Sandra Rebok
  • Part II. Slavery and freedom on the edges of the Atlantic world
  • The crossings of Occramar Marycoo, or Newport Gardner / Edward E. Andrews
  • Constituting value in a narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa / Bryan Sinche
  • Enslaved ship pilots: challenging notions of race and slavery along the peripheries of the revolutionary Atlantic world / Kevin Dawson
  • From Ireland to Africa: the criminal career and punishment of Patrick Madan / Emma Christopher
  • The transatlantic slave trade and the vulnerability of free blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780-1830 / Mariana P. Candido
  • Part III. Introduction
  • Indigenous leaders and the Atlantic world: the parallel lives of Dom Antonio Filipe Camarao and Pieter Poty, 1600-1650 / Mark Meuwese
  • Law and colonial reform in the 18th century Spanish world: the life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican lawyer / Christopher Albi
  • Benkos Bioho: African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali
  • "Je me vois reduit ... a la Mendicite": marine veterans of New France and their new Atlantic world / Christian Crouch
  • Paul Cuffe's journey from 'Musta' to Atlantic-African, 1778-1811 / Jeffrey A. Fortin
  • Conclusion: Atlantic lives and Atlantic history / Mark Meuwese.

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