Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
by
Susanah Shaw Romney
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within...