Connecting Worlds and People: Early modern diasporas / Edition 1

by Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht

Overview

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 reference to the ways in which diasporas could act as translocal societies, connecting worlds and peoples that may not otherwise have been linked. The volume looks at the ways in which diasporas or diasporic groups, such as the Herrnhuters, the Huguenots, the Quakers, Jews, the Mennonites, the Moriscos and others, could function as intermediaries to connect otherwise separated communities and societies. All contributors analyse the respective groups’ internal and external networks, social relations and the settings of social interactions, looking at the entangled networks of diaspora communities and their effects upon the societies and regions they linked through those networks. The collection takes a fresh look at early modern diasporas, combining religious, cultural, social and economic history to better understand how early modern communication patterns and markets evolved, how consumption patterns changed and what this meant for social, economic and cultural change, how this impacted on what we understand as early developments towards globalization, and how early developments towards globalization, in turn, were constitutive of these.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472448514
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/2016
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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, sixteenth–eighteenth centuries Susanne Lachenicht

3 The challenge of linking two worlds: transatlantic Quaker connections, the American Revolution, and abolitionism 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 the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Anna Brismark and Pia Lundqvist