[PDF.51jl] Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Early American Places Ser.)

Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Early American Places Ser.)

[PDF.bu45] Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Early American Places Ser.)

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 | #1198703 in Books |  University of Georgia Press |  2012-07-01 |  2012-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Very well researched, informative, but repetitive.|By Bentley S. Davis|I have really enjoyed this book and learned a great deal about Curacao's history and the people who lived there. That being said, I feel like this was a series of academic papers strung together. While the book is very well researched with exhaustive notes, it is repetitive in places. Perhaps when the pap| ||This exploration of localized sociocultural mixing and extensive, illicit commerce on a Dutch Caribbean island makes for a fascinating study of colonial agency. The Antilles was the most dynamic site of creolization and contraband in the early modern world. A

When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas.

The island’s main city, Willems...

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