Browsing by Subject "Atlantic history"
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“THE ACADIAN OF OUR FANCY” : Clothing, community, and identity among the Neutral French, c. 1670-1750
(2020-09-11)“The Acadian of our Fancy” explores Acadian textile culture from French colonists’ establishment outside of Port Royal to the deportation of 1755. It addresses questions of change and identity: did the Acadians maintain a ... -
"Generally Fitt to be Trusted": Social Networks and the Moral Economies of Sugar Plantations in Early Anglo-Jamaica
(2015)This thesis argues that white residents in seventeenth-century Jamaica circulated within an economy of obligation, or an economic culture in which character, reputation and trust were vital, particularly as it related to ...