Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economics and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800

Name: Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economics and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800
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ISBN: 9789004233171

ISBN-10: 9004233172

ISBN-13: 9789004233171

Edition: 2012

Authors: Douglas Catterall, Jody Catterall

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The practical application of micro-historical approaches in 'Women in Port' helps to re-frame our understanding of women's possibilities in the Atlantic world.

Book details

List price: $179.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 482
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



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, Rentiï¿½res: Free Women of Color in the Port Cities of Colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750-1790



Conclusion: Women in the Port Cities of the Early Modern Atlantic World: Retrospect and Prospect



Bibliography


Index