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Rupert, Linda Marguerite.

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Inter-imperial trade and local identity: Curacao in the colonial Atlantic world.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inter-imperial trade and local identity: Curacao in the colonial Atlantic world./
Author:	Rupert, Linda Marguerite.
Description:	333 p.
Notes:	Adviser: David Barry Gaspar.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
Subject:	History, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3264029
ISBN:	9780549022770

Inter-imperial trade and local identity: Curacao in the colonial Atlantic world.
Rupert, Linda Marguerite.

Inter-imperial trade and local identity: Curacao in the colonial Atlantic world. - 333 p.

Adviser: David Barry Gaspar.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2006.

This dissertation examines the interplay between imperial power structures, trans-imperial exchanges, and processes of creolization and colonial identity formation in the early modern Caribbean. The case study is Curacao, a small island in the southern Caribbean that belonged to the Dutch imperial sphere. During the time that the Dutch West India Company governed Curacao, 1634-1791, the island was a major Dutch entrepot in the Atlantic and the Caribbean trade systems. While the Company administered Curacao and controlled its economy, men and women from two Atlantic diaspora groups, Sephardic Jews and people of African descent, enslaved and free, sustained the local society and economy. They also were major participants in Curacao's regional trade. Curacao's Sephardim and people of African descent developed multiple social, economic, and cultural networks around the Caribbean contraband trade. In the port city of Willemstad, in exchanges between Curacao and the nearby Spanish American mainland (Tierra Firme), and through the development of a new creole language, Papiamentu, Curacao's diasporic denizens together forged dynamic colonial identities in the interstices of the Dutch imperial system.

ISBN: 9780549022770Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017580
History, Latin American.

Inter-imperial trade and local identity: Curacao in the colonial Atlantic world.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the interplay between imperial power structures, trans-imperial exchanges, and processes of creolization and colonial identity formation in the early modern Caribbean. The case study is Curacao, a small island in the southern Caribbean that belonged to the Dutch imperial sphere. During the time that the Dutch West India Company governed Curacao, 1634-1791, the island was a major Dutch entrepot in the Atlantic and the Caribbean trade systems. While the Company administered Curacao and controlled its economy, men and women from two Atlantic diaspora groups, Sephardic Jews and people of African descent, enslaved and free, sustained the local society and economy. They also were major participants in Curacao's regional trade. Curacao's Sephardim and people of African descent developed multiple social, economic, and cultural networks around the Caribbean contraband trade. In the port city of Willemstad, in exchanges between Curacao and the nearby Spanish American mainland (Tierra Firme), and through the development of a new creole language, Papiamentu, Curacao's diasporic denizens together forged dynamic colonial identities in the interstices of the Dutch imperial system.
520 $a The Caribbean maritime economy and the illicit inter-imperial trade provided a framework and created opportunities for Curacaoans of African and Sephardic descent to develop their own networks and to participate in smuggling and other inter-imperial exchanges on their own terms. Nevertheless, both groups were bound by the realities of the Dutch imperial system and by the terms of the colonial slave society in which they lived. The experiences of Curacao's Sephardic and black residents in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries demonstrate that contraband trade was much more than a parallel economy in the early modern Atlantic world. Smuggling provided opportunities for rich cultural and social exchanges well beyond the economic sphere, and it shaped the very character of colonial American slave societies such as Curacao.
520 $a Primary sources for this study come from archival collections in Curacao, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Spain, and North America. The two major sources are the records of the Dutch West India Company in The Hague and Spanish imperial documents related to Curacao and Tierra Firme from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain.
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