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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493740903321

Autore

Das Nandini

Titolo

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England / / Nandini Das, Lauren Working, Haig Smith, João Vicente Melo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2021

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-485-5228-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Connected Histories in the Early Modern World ; ; 3

Soggetti

English language

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Race

Migration, Internal - England

Anthropological linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Alien/Stranger -- Ambassador -- Blackamoor/Moor -- Broker -- Cannibal -- Citizen -- Convert -- Courtier -- Denizen -- Envoy -- Exile -- Foreigner -- Friend/Ally -- Gypsy -- Heathen -- Host -- Indian -- Interpreter -- Jew -- Mahometan -- Mercenary -- Merchant -- Native -- Pagan -- Pirate -- Rogue -- Savage/Barbarian -- Secretary -- Settler -- Spy -- Subject -- Traitor -- Translator -- Traveller -- Turk -- Vagrant/Vagabond -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Following the model of Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the



concepts, preconceptions, and debates that they embody - or sometimes subsume - came to play formative roles in the articulation of identity, rights, and power in subsequent periods. Together, the essays in this volume provide an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the development of issues of identity, belonging, and human mobility.