Women in Port Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800 / Edited by Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell.

Other author Catterall, Douglas.
Other author Campbell, Jodi, 1968-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLEIDEN : BRILL, 2012.
Descriptionxviii, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Women--Atlantic Ocean Region. --History.
Women--Atlantic Ocean Region. --Social conditions.

SeriesAtlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, 1570-0542 ; VOLUME 25
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [409]-426) and index.
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LCCN 2012026681
ISBN9789004233171 (hardback : alk. paper)

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