Publication
Brill (2012), 464 pages
ISBN
9004233172 / 9789004233171
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CONTENTS
Preliminary Material
Introduction: Mother Courage and Her Sisters: Women’s Worlds in the Premodern Atlantic
Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell
SECTION ONE: Metropolitan Frameworks
1. The Women of Early Modern Triana: Life, Death, and Survival Strategies in Seville’s Maritime District
Alexandra Parma Cook
2. Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic: Women and Woolens in the Seventeenth Century
Gordon DesBrisay
3. “Ports, Petticoats and Power?” Women and Work in Early-National Philadelphia
Sheryllynne Haggerty
4. Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands
Natalie Zacek
SECTION TWO: Traders and Travelers
5. The Price of Assimilation: Spanish and Portuguese Women in French Cities, 1500–1650
Gayle Brunelle
6. Capable Entrepreneurs: The Women Merchants and Traders of New Netherland
Kim Todt and Martha Dickinson Shattuck
7. “Can She be a woman?” Gender and Contraband in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Ernst Pijning
8. Lives On the Seas: Women’s Trajectories in Port Cities of the Portuguese Overseas Empire
JĂşnia Ferreira Furtado
SECTION THREE: Interactions and Intermediaries
9. Wives, Brokers, and Laborers: Women at Cape Coast, 1750–1807
Ty M. Reese
10. Gendering the Black Atlantic: Women’s Agency in Coastal Trade Settlements in the Guinea Bissau Region
Philip J. Havik
11. Housekeepers, Merchants, Rentières: 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
Preliminary Material
Introduction: Mother Courage and Her Sisters: Women’s Worlds in the Premodern Atlantic
Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell
SECTION ONE: Metropolitan Frameworks
1. The Women of Early Modern Triana: Life, Death, and Survival Strategies in Seville’s Maritime District
Alexandra Parma Cook
2. Aberdeen and the Dutch Atlantic: Women and Woolens in the Seventeenth Century
Gordon DesBrisay
3. “Ports, Petticoats and Power?” Women and Work in Early-National Philadelphia
Sheryllynne Haggerty
4. Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands
Natalie Zacek
SECTION TWO: Traders and Travelers
5. The Price of Assimilation: Spanish and Portuguese Women in French Cities, 1500–1650
Gayle Brunelle
6. Capable Entrepreneurs: The Women Merchants and Traders of New Netherland
Kim Todt and Martha Dickinson Shattuck
7. “Can She be a woman?” Gender and Contraband in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Ernst Pijning
8. Lives On the Seas: Women’s Trajectories in Port Cities of the Portuguese Overseas Empire
JĂşnia Ferreira Furtado
SECTION THREE: Interactions and Intermediaries
9. Wives, Brokers, and Laborers: Women at Cape Coast, 1750–1807
Ty M. Reese
10. Gendering the Black Atlantic: Women’s Agency in Coastal Trade Settlements in the Guinea Bissau Region
Philip J. Havik
11. Housekeepers, Merchants, Rentières: 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