Black lives in the English archives, 1500-1677 : imprints of the invisible / Imtiaz Habib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Habib, Imtiaz H., 1949- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--England--History--16th century.

Black people.

Black people--England--History--17th century.

Black people--Race identity--Great Britain.

Ethnology--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Minorities--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Minorities.

Minorities--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Black people--Race identity.

Race relations.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Great Britain.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 415 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routlege, 2020

Summary:

"Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time Imtiaz Habib collects the scattered references to black people - whether from Africa, India or America - in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and arranges them into a systematic, chronological descriptive index. He offers an extended historical and theoretical interpretation of the records in six chapters, which serve as an introductory guide to the index even as they articulate a specific argument about the meaning of the records. Both the archival information and interpretive scholarship provide a strong framework from which future historical debates on race in early modern England can proceed."--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Early Tudor Black Records The Mixed Beginnings Of A Black Population

2. Elizabethan London Black Records The Writing Of Absence

3. Black Records Of Seventeenth-Century London A Benign Neglect And The Legislation Of Enslavement

4. Black People Outside London, 1558-1677 The Provincial Backdrop

5. Indians And Others The Protocolonial Dream.

Notes:

"First published in 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-400) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780367649913

0367649918

OCLC:

1200963984

Publisher Number:

99986729509