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Creolization and Contraband - Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Englisch · Fester Einband

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Informationen zum Autor Linda M. Rupert is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Klappentext When Curacao came under Dutch control in 1634! the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation! and Curacao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island's main city! Willemstad! had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks! urban slaves! and Sephardic Jews! who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert! the emergence of this creole language was one of the two defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern Curacao. The other was smuggling. Both developments! she argues! were informal adaptations to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires thrust different peoples together. "Creolization and Contraband" uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social! cultural! and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers! smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction. Far from marginal! these extra-official exchanges were the very building blocks of colonial society. Zusammenfassung Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social! cultural! and linguistic exchange in the early modern world.

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Rupert uses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. She argues that smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction.

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Autoren Linda Rupert, Linda M. Rupert
Verlag The University of Georgia Press
 
Sprache Englisch
Produktform Fester Einband
Erschienen 01.07.2012
 
EAN 9780820343051
ISBN 978-0-8203-4305-1
Seiten 296
Serien Early American Places
Early American Places
Thema Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918

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