1st Edition

Connecting Worlds and People Early modern diasporas

Edited By Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht Copyright 2017
164 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

164 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

164 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent decades historians have emphasized just how dynamic and varied early modern Europe was. Previously held notions of monolithic and static societies have now been replaced with a model in which new ideas, different cultures and communities jostle for attention and influence. Building upon the concept of interaction, the essays in this volume develop and explore the idea with specific... Read more

Introduction

[Dagmar Freist and Susanne Lachenicht]

1. The Nation of Naturales del Reino de Granada: Transforming Identities in the Morisco Castilian Diaspora, 1502–1614

[Manuel F. Fernández Chaves and Rafael M. Pérez García]

2. The Huguenots’ Maritime Networks, 16th–18th Centuries

[Susanne Lachenicht]

3. The Challenge of Linking Two Worlds: Transatlantic Quaker Connections, the American Revolution, and Abolitionism, 17th–18th Centuries

[Sünne Juterczenka]

4. “A Very Warm Surinam Kiss”: Staying Connected, Getting Engaged—Interlacing Social Sites of the Moravian Diaspora

[Dagmar Freist]

5. Owning the Body, Wooing the Soul: How Forced Labor Was Justified in the Moravian Correspondence Network in Eighteenth-Century Surinam

[Jessica Cronshagen]

6. Lutheran Correspondence Networks in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World

[Hermann Wellenreuther]

7. A Diaspora on the Edge of Modernity?: The Jewish Minority in Gothenburg in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

[Anna Brismark and Pia Lundqvist]

Biography

Dagmar Freist is Professor of Early Modern History at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Susanne Lachenicht is Professor of Early Modern History at Bayreuth University, Germany.