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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816812803321

Autore

Rupert Linda Marguerite

Titolo

Creolization and contraband : Curacao in the early modern Atlantic world / / by Linda M. Rupert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-68578-6

9786613662729

0-8203-4368-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Collana

Early American places

Disciplina

972.986

Soggetti

Creoles - Curacao - History

Intercultural communication - Curacao - History

Papiamentu - Curacao - History

Sephardim - Curacao - History

Slaves - Curacao - History

Smuggling - Curacao - History

Curacao Commerce History

Curacao History 17th century

Curacao History 18th century

Curacao Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Emergence of an Entrepôt -- Converging Currents -- Atlantic Diasporas -- "Cruising to the Most Advantageous Places" -- Part 2. Socio-Cultural Interactions in a Maritime Trade Economy -- A Caribbean Port City -- Curaçao and Tierra Firme -- Language and Creolization -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Rupert uses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. She argues that smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction.