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

• Autore: Rupert Linda Marguerite
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.986
• Soggetto topico: Creoles - Curacao - History; Intercultural communication - Curacao - History; Papiamentu - Curacao - History; Sephardim - Curacao - History; Slaves - Curacao - History; Smuggling - Curacao - History
• Soggetto geografico: Curacao Commerce History; Curacao History 17th century; Curacao History 18th century; Curacao Social conditions
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Creolization and contraband
• ISBN: 1-280-68578-6; 9786613662729; 0-8203-4368-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816812803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Early American places.