Captives, colonists and craftspeople : material culture and institutional power in Malta, 1600-1900 / Russell Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, Russell (Archaeologist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Malta--History.

Material culture.

Malta--History.

Malta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2021]

Summary:

Over the course of four centuries, the island of Malta underwent several significant political transformations, including its roles as a Catholic bastion under the Knights of St. John between 1530 and 1798, and as a British maritime hub in the nineteenth century. This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological findings to compare slavery and coerced labor, resource control, globalization, and other historical phenomena in Malta under the two regimes: one feudal, the other colonial. Spanning conventional divides between the early and late modern eras, Russell Palmer offers here a rich analysis of a Mediterranean island against a background of immense European and global change.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Institutional Agents

Chapter 2 Institutional Spaces

Chapter 3 Productive Labour

Chapter 4 Foodways

Chapter 5 Material Routines

Chapter 6 Global Intersections

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789207798

1789207797

OCLC:

1347247543