| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit |
| Author: |
BlockKristen, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Athens |
| Published: |
University of Georgia Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (328 p.). |
| Series: |
Early American places |
| Subject: |
Caribbean Area - |
| Subject: |
Caribbean Area - History - 18th century - |
| Subject: |
Caribbean Area - History - 17th century - |
| Subject: |
Caribbean Area - Social conditions - 18th century - |
| Subject: |
Caribbean Area - Social conditions - 17th century - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820343754/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780820343754electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0820343757electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780820338675hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0820338672hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780820338682pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0820338680pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Isabel. -- "If her soul was condemned, it would be the authorities' fault" -- Contesting the boundaries of antichristian cruelty in Cartagena de Indias -- Imperial intercession and master-slaverelations in Spanish Caribbean hinterlands -- Law, religion, social contract, and slavery's daily negotiations -- Nicolas. -- "To live and die as a Catholic Christian" -- Northern European Protestants in the Spanish Caribbean -- Empire, bureaucracy, and escaping the Spanish inquisition -- Conversion, coercion, and tolerance in Old and New Worlds -- Henry. -- "Such as will truck for trade with darksome things" -- Cromwellian political economy and the pursuit of New World promise -- Plunder, masculinity and the politics of economic exclusion -- Anxieties of interracial alliances,black resistance, and the specter of slavery -- Yaff & Nell. -- "He hath made all nations of one blood" -- Quakers,slavery, and the challenges of radical universalism -- Evangelization and insubordination : authority and stability in Quaker plantations -- The Protestant ethic and the Society of Friends : ambiguous Caribbean legacy -- Conclusion : cynicism and redemption. -- Religion, empire and the Atlantic moral economy at the turn of the 18th century |