‘A Conversable Knowledge’
in Learning Languages in Early Modern England
August 2019; p ublished online October 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); European History; Social and Cultural History. 24857 words.
This chapter considers language-learning in educational travel. Early modern English elites placed great emphasis on the educational value of travel, and saw the study and practice of...
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Abascal and the Problem of Letters in Peru, 1806–1816
in Who Should Rule?
October 2017; p ublished online August 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); History of the Americas. 13700 words.
The focus turns to Peru in this chapter, which offers an ideal case study for understanding the power struggles between the royal military and the republic of letters. One of the most...
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Adaptation
in Transatlantic Obligations
February 2016; p ublished online December 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: History of the Americas; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 10426 words.
Chapter 5 begins with a discussion of indigenous family practices in Lima and Arequipa, such as indigenous marriage and dowries. It goes on to argue that many urban families in the...
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The African Americans’ Revolution
in The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution
December 2012; p ublished online December 2012 .
Article. Subjects: History; United States History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Military History. 11880 words.
The American Revolution played an important role in African Americans' quest for freedom. It marked the first mass rebellion by slaves in American history, gave rise to the first civil...
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Agents and Powers
in The Enlightenment on Trial
April 2017; p ublished online February 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); History of the Americas. 13016 words.
This chapter provides a synchronic overview of the papers, procedures, and payments associated with civil litigation in the eighteenth-century Spanish empire, with special attention to the...
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The Agrarian East
in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
July 2015; p ublished online March 2015 .
Article. Subjects: History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); European History; Industrial History. 12670 words.
This chapter deals with the vast territories east of the Elbe river, including Poland–Lithuania, the Czech lands, Brandenburg–Prussia, and Russia. There are two primary and interlocking...
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The Agrarian West
in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
July 2015; p ublished online November 2014 .
Article. Subjects: History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); European History. 15627 words.
The main developments in western European agrarian society and economy are surveyed at the outset in a regional analysis which stresses the degree of variety within quite small areas and by...
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Alcohol in the Atlantic
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online April 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Modern History (1700 to 1945); Social and Cultural History. 17555 words.
Dating from the earliest times in Latin America, alcohol has played a crucial social, economic, political, and cultural role. Often reserved for politico-religious leaders, alcohol was a...
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The Alphabetic Colonization of Amerindian Oral Ecologies in Early Brazil
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online June 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700); Environmental History. 14740 words.
Although it has received less scholarly attention than firearms, microbes, domestic animals and plants, market economy, and statecraft, alphabetic reading and writing was crucial in the...
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Ambivalent Cosmopolites
in From Empire to Humanity
August 2016; p ublished online June 2016 .
Chapter. Subjects: History of the Americas; Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 5483 words.
Long-standing doubts about universal benevolence came to the fore as the French Revolutionary Wars and the Haitian Revolution destabilized the Atlantic world. Some activists had always...
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