Atlantic biographies : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic World / edited by Mark Meuwese and Jeffrey Fortin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fortin, Jeffrey A.

Meuwese, Mark.

Series:

The Atlantic World 27.

Atlantic World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Bibliography.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume uses a biography-as-history approach to illuminate the interconnectedness of the peoples of the Americas, West Africa, and Europe. Contributors highlight individuals' and people's experiences made possible by their participation in the creation of an Atlantic world, where conflict, cooperation, neccessity and invention led to new societies and cultures. Composed of chapters that span a broad chronological, topical and thematic range, Atlantic Biographies highlights the uniqueness of the Atlantic as a social, political, economic, and cultural theater bound together to illustrate what the Atlantic meant to those subjects of each chapter. This is a book about people, their resilience, and their resolve to carve a niche or have a broader impact in the ever-changing world around them.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Jeffrey A. Fortin

Pierre Biard: Priest and Pirate of Mount Desert Island / Laura M. Chmielewski

Thomas Morton / Charlotte Carrington

Alexander von Humboldt, His Scientific Expedition through the Americas and the Impact of His Atlantic Experiences / Sandra Rebok

The Crossings of Occramar Marycoo, or Newport Gardner / Edward E. Andrews

Constituting Value in A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa / Bryan Sinche

Enslaved Ship Pilots: Challenging Notions of Race and Slavery along the Peripheries of the Revolutionary Atlantic World / Kevin Dawson

From Ireland to Africa: the Criminal Career and Punishment of Patrick Madan / Emma Christopher

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Vulnerability of Free Blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780–1830 / Mariana P. Candido

Indigenous Leaders and the Atlantic World: The Parallel Lives of Dom Antônio Filipe Camarão and Pieter Poty, 1600–1650 / Mark Meuwese

Law and Colonial Reform in the 18th Century Spanish World: The Life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican Lawyer / Christopher Albi

Benkos Biohó: African Maroon Leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali

‘Je me vois réduit…à la mendicité:’ Marine Veterans of New France and their New Atlantic World / Christian Ayne Crouch

Paul Cuffe’s Journey from ‘Musta’ to Atlantic-African, 1778–1811 / Jeffrey A. Fortin

Conclusion: Atlantic Lives and Atlantic History / Mark Meuwese

Index / Jeffrey A. Fortin and Mark Meuwese.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-25971-6

OCLC:

862050260

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004259713 DOI