Description
Using vivid stories culled from Dutch-language archives, Romney brings to the fore the essential role of women in forming and securing these relationships, and she reveals how a dense web of these intimate networks created imperial structures from the ground up. These structures were equally dependent on male and female labor and rested on small- and large-scale economic exchanges between people from all backgrounds. This work pioneers a new understanding of the development of early modern empire as arising out of personal ties.
About the Author
Susanah Shaw Romney is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
Reviews
A complex, refreshing view of the Dutch Atlantic world.-Choice
Critically engages Dutch and American historiographies of colonization while presenting a suggestive new approach for understanding empires as social networks based in intimacy.-The Journal of American History
An important book in demonstrating how early modern empires were built and functioned and how inhabitants from all social ranks on both sides of the Atlantic negotiated and made sense of their place within empire.-de Halve Maen
An innovative and important addition to the thriving field of New Netherland studies, as well as to the study of early modern European colonization.-William & Mary Quarterly
Romney offers a complex, refreshing view of the Dutch Atlantic world, constituting a much-needed intervention in the field of New Netherland studies.-Choice
[Romney] has given historians a new way of conceptualizing and understanding Atlantic world empires.-American Historical Review
An excellent book that is narrowly focused with wide implications.-Itinerario
Book Information
ISBN 9781469633480
Author Susanah Shaw Romney
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 560g