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Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit
- Title
- Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit / Kristen Block.
- Author
- Block, Kristen.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 309 p. : ill., maps; cm.
- Series Statement
- Early American places
- Uniform Title
- Early American places.
- Subjects
- Caribbean Area > History > 17th century
- Caribbean Area > History > 18th century
- Slavery and the church > Caribbean Area > History
- Religion and social problems > Caribbean Area > History
- Caribbean Area > Race relations > History
- Caribbean Area > Economic conditions > History
- Caribbean Area > Social conditions > History
- Caribbean Area > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Isabel. -- "If her soul was condemned, it would be the authorities' fault" -- Contesting the boundaries of antichristian cruelty in Cartagena de Indias -- Imperial intercession and master-slave relations in Spanish Caribbean hinterlands -- Law, religion, social contract, and slavery's daily negotiations -- Nicolas. -- "To live and die as a Catholic Christian" -- Northern European Protestants in the Spanish Caribbean -- Empire, bureaucracy, and escaping the Spanish inquisition -- Conversion, coercion, and tolerance in Old and New Worlds -- Henry. -- "Such as will truck for trade with darksome things" -- Cromwellian political economy and the pursuit of New World promise -- Plunder, masculinity and the politics of economic exclusion -- Anxieties of interracial alliances, black resistance, and the specter of slavery -- Yaff & Nell. -- "He hath made all nations of one blood" -- Quakers, slavery, and the challenges of radical universalism -- Evangelization and insubordination : authority and stability in Quaker plantations -- The Protestant ethic and the Society of Friends : ambiguous Caribbean legacy -- Conclusion : cynicism and redemption. -- Religion, empire and the Atlantic moral economy at the turn of the 18th century.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-769
- ISBN
- 9780820338675 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0820338672 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780820338682 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0820338680 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012001900
- OCLC
- 768168211
- Author
- Block, Kristen.
- Title
- Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit / Kristen Block.
- Imprint
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- Series
- Early American placesEarly American places.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-769