ISBN:
9789004233171
,
9004233172
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 443 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
25 cm
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 Vol. 25
Series Statement:
The Atlantic world
DDC:
305.409163
Keywords:
Women History
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women
;
Atlantic Ocean Region
;
History
;
Women
;
Atlantic Ocean Region
;
Social conditions
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Atlantischer Ozean
;
Hafenstadt
;
Frau
;
Händlerin
;
Soziale Situation
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Atlantischer Ozean
;
Hafenstadt
;
Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
Händlerin
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
Abstract:
List of maps and illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-426) and index. - List of maps and illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
,
List of maps and illustrations ; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; Introduction : mother courage and her sisters : women's worlds ; In the premodern Atlantic
,
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 woollens 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
,
Traders and travelers ; The price of assimilation : Spanish and Portuguese women in French cities, 1500-1650
,
Capable 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
,
Interactions and intermediaries ; Wives, brokers, and laborers : women at Cape coast, 1750-1800
,
Gendering the black Atlantic : women's agency in coastal trade settlements in the Guinea Bissau region
,
Housekeepers, merchants, rentieres: free women of color in the port cities of colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750-1790
,
Conclusion: women in th port cities of the early modern Atlantic world : retrospect and prospect
,
Bibliography ; Index.
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