Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Promises and Predicaments of the Long Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World -- Chapter 2: Pirates, Slaves, and Profligate Rogues: Sailors of Color in the E...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,
2021
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies Ser.
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| Sujets: | Commerce International trade Economic history Commerce-History-18th century Economic history-1600-1750 International trade-History Economic history-1750-1918 Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Résumé: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Promises and Predicaments of the Long Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World -- Chapter 2: Pirates, Slaves, and Profligate Rogues: Sailors of Color in the Eighteenth-Century Maritime World -- Establishing the Debate -- Dampier's Voyage and the Economy of Enslavement -- Abraham Samuel: The King of Madagascar -- Julian, Quintor, and the Fantasy of Archival Hope -- Chapter 3: "Commencing Merchant": Forms of Feeling and Logics of Capital in Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) -- Logics of Capital -- Forms of Feeling -- Conclusion: Feeling "English" -- Chapter 4: "Peruvia's Bleeding Land": Bodyscape Commerce in Helen Maria Williams's Peru -- Bodyscape Commerce: Allegory, Peruvia, and Potosí -- Imperialist Theater: Romance, Seduction, and "Guilty Treasures" -- Empire Personified: Imperial Iberia and Bleeding Peruvia -- "Peruvia's Rifled Bosom" -- Theater of Empire: Williams's Allegory and the Geographic Imagination -- Chapter 5: Religion, Sexuality, and Antislavery Resistance: The Hart Sisters and Mary Prince in the Atlantic World -- Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert: Methodism, Sex, and Antislavery Activity in the Atlantic World -- Slavery, Evangelicalism, and the Limits of Black Female Resistance in The History of Mary Prince -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: "A Cure, Both for Soul and Body": Transculturation in Robinson Crusoe's Tobacco "Application" -- Smoking Tobacco -- Selling Tobacco -- Conclusion: Text as Drug -- Chapter 7: "One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure": Counterfeit Coins and Imperial Commerce in 1770s Jamaica -- Introduction -- The Tale of the False Doubloons -- A Nest of Quarrels -- Some Causes -- Interdependent Economies. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000382457 1000382451 9780367407254 0367407256 |