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Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit /
Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Early American places.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Isabel.
- "If her soul was condemned, it would be the authorities' fault"
- Contesting the boundaries of antichristian cruelty in Cartagena de Indias
- Imperial intercession and master-slave relations in Spanish Caribbean hinterlands
- Law, religion, social contract, and slavery's daily negotiations
- Nicolas.
- "To live and die as a Catholic Christian"
- Northern European Protestants in the Spanish Caribbean
- Empire, bureaucracy, and escaping the Spanish inquisition
- Conversion, coercion, and tolerance in Old and New Worlds
- Henry.
- "Such as will truck for trade with darksome things"
- Cromwellian political economy and the pursuit of New World promise
- Plunder, masculinity and the politics of economic exclusion
- Anxieties of interracial alliances, black resistance, and the specter of slavery
- Yaff & Nell.
- "He hath made all nations of one blood"
- Quakers, slavery, and the challenges of radical universalism
- Evangelization and insubordination : authority and stability in Quaker plantations
- The Protestant ethic and the Society of Friends : ambiguous Caribbean legacy
- Conclusion : cynicism and redemption.
- Religion, empire and the Atlantic moral economy at the turn of the 18th century.