The Sun King's Atlantic : drugs, demons and dyestuffs in the Atlantic world, 1640-1730 /

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"In The Sun King's Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for contemporaries at the time, Africa and America were omnipresent throughout early modern France...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wimmler, Jutta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Colección:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 33.
Temas:
1643-1715
Material culture > France > History.
Culture matérielle > France > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
Civilization > African influences
Civilization > Caribbean influences
Commerce
French colonies
Material culture
Atlantic Ocean Region > Commerce > History.
Caribbean Area > Commerce > France > History.
Africa, West > Commerce > France > History.
France > History > Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
France > Colonies > Commerce > America.
France > Colonies > Commerce > Africa.
France > Civilization > Caribbean influences.
France > Civilization > African influences.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Commerce > Histoire.
Caraïbes (Région) > Commerce > France > Histoire.
Afrique occidentale > Commerce > France > Histoire.
France > Colonies > Commerce > Amérique.
France > Colonies > Commerce > Afrique.
France > Civilisation > Influence africaine.
Africa
West Africa
America
Atlantic Ocean Region
Caribbean Area
France
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sugar and slaves? French Atlantic trade before 1730
  • State interests and regional privileges
  • From tobacco to cotton
  • West Africa and the slave trade
  • From the visible to the invisible
  • The fashionable Atlantic: innovation and consumption
  • The color revolution
  • Gum arabic and blue-white cottons
  • The world of interior design
  • Leather
  • Industries and fur trades
  • Body matters: remedies, foodstuffs and cosmetics
  • American remedies in France
  • A quiet consumer revolution
  • Old elites and the nouvelle cuisine
  • The scent of Western Africa
  • The iatrochemical advantage: methods for an expanding world
  • New pathogens and the rise of botany
  • Distillation and the Academie Royale des Sciences
  • The authority of knowledge
  • A two-sided Atlantic?
  • Perfect French subjects: staging the Atlantic world
  • Africans and Indians on stage
  • Tackling the stereotypes
  • America and Africa in the news
  • Devils and martyrs: religious concepts travel the globe
  • Missionaries and martyrs
  • The devil and his beatings
  • Witches and sorcerers
  • Epilogue.

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