ISBN:
9789004233171
,
9789004233195
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 443 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Available via World Wide Web
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Kagay, Donald J. [Rezension von: Catterall, Douglas, Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities 1500–1800] 2014
Series Statement:
Atlantic World
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Port : Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800
DDC:
305.409163
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Mother Courage and Her Sisters: Women's Worlds in the Premodern Atlantic; Section One: Metropolitan Frameworks; The Women of Early Modern Triana: Life, Death, and Survival Strategies in Seville's Maritime District; Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic: Women and Woolens in the Seventeenth Century; "Ports, Petticoats and Power?" Women and Work in Early-National Philadelphia; Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands; Section Two: Traders and Travelers
Description / Table of Contents:
The Price of Assimilation: Spanish and Portuguese Women in French Cities, 1500-1650Capable Entrepreneurs: The Women Merchants and Traders of New Netherland; "Can She be a woman?" Gender and Contraband in the Revolutionary Atlantic; Lives On the Seas: Women's Trajectories in Port Cities of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; Section Three: Interactions and Intermediaries; Wives, Brokers, and Laborers: Women at Cape Coast, 1750-1807; Gendering the Black Atlantic: Women's Agency in Coastal Trade Settlements in the Guinea Bissau Region
Description / Table of Contents:
Housekeepers, Merchants, Rentières: Free Women of Color in the Port Cities of Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750-1790Conclusion: Women in the Port Cities of the Early Modern Atlantic World: Retrospect and Prospect; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
