ISBN:
9781442206977
,
9781442206984
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 274 S.
Year of publication:
2010
Series Statement:
The human tradition around the world
DDC:
909/.09821
Keywords:
History, Modern
;
Atlantic Ocean Region Biography
;
Atlantic Ocean Region History
;
Biografie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Amerika
;
Sozialgeschichte 1500-1850
;
Amerika
;
Sozialgeschichte 1500-1850
Note:
Literaturangaben
,
Introduction : the human tradition in the Atlantic world
,
Catarina Álvares Paraguaçu (1510s-1582) : Indian visionary in Brazil and France
,
John Billington and his family (c. 1582-1630) : doomed 'knave' of Plymouth Plantation
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Samuel Cohen (c. 1600-1642) : Jewish translator in Brazil, Curaçao, and Angola
,
William Lamport (c. 1611-1659): Mexico's Irish would-be king
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Jacob Leisler (1640-1691) : German-born governor of New York
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Hendrick or 'Tiyanoga' (1680-1755) : Iroquois emissary to England
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Sir William Johnson (1715-1774) : English emissary to the Iroquois
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Henry 'Harry' Washington (1750s-1790s) : a founding father's slave
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Julien Raimond (1744-1801) : planter, revolutionary and free man of color in Saint-Domingue
,
Anne Pépin (1747-1837) : entrepreneur, landlady, and mixed-race signare in Senegal
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João da Silva Feijó (1760-1824) : Brazilian scientist in the Portuguese overseas empire
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Juan Antonio Olavarrieta (1765-1822) : Basque cleric and libertine rebel in Mexico
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Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) : feminist slaveowner in Barbados
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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879) : Napoleon's American sister-in-law
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James MacQueen (1778-1870) : agent of imperial change in the Caribbean and Africa
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William Bullock (1773-1849) : British Museum curator and showman visits Mexico
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