Women in port: gendering communities, economies, and social networks in Atlantic port cities, 1500-1800
2013; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 50; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.50-4591
ISSN1943-5975
AutoresDouglas Catterall, Jodi Campbell,
Tópico(s)Colonialism, slavery, and trade
ResumoList 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 Section 1: 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 Section 2: 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 Section 3: 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 the Port Cities of the Early Modern Atlantic World: Retrospect and Prospect, Noble David Cook Bibliography Index
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