Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World : People, Products, and Practices on the Move (Hardcover)

Introduction Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World, Caroline A. Williams; Chapter 1 1I am very grateful to the conference organizers, Caroline Williams and Mark Horton, for inviting me and for giving the opportunity to present a first version of this article at the conference for discussion. I would like to thank Catherine Briand, Evan Jones, Michael Braddick, and Anthony McFarlane for their very helpful comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank Carla Zecher, Director of the Renaissance Studies Center at the Newberry Library (Chicago), for helping me translate the original text from French to English as well as for her assistance in refining the ideas and the language of the text. Much of the research for this article was generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds quebecois de recherche pour la societe et la culture. I revised the text for publication while I was William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and at the History Department of Harvard University. I would like to acknowledge their generous and stimulating support., Laurier Turgeon; Chapter 2 Negotiating Fortune: English Merchants in Early Sixteenth-Century Seville, Heather Dalton; Chapter 3 Interlopers in an Intercultural Zone? Early Scots Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1630?1660, Douglas Catterall; Chapter 4 ‘A People So Subtle’: Sephardic Jewish Pioneers of the English West Indies, Natalie Zacek; Chapter 5 Subjects or Allies: The Contentious Status of the Tupi Indians in Dutch Brazil, 1625?1654, Mark Meuwese; Chapter 6 ‘To Transmit to Posterity the Virtue, Lustre and Glory of their Ancestors’: Scottish Pioneers in Darien, Panama, Mark Horton; Chapter 7 1 The archaeological research at Savi and Ouidah lying at heart of this chapter has been encouraged by Professors Merrick Posnansky (UCLA) and Alexis Adande (Universite Nationale du Benin), and aided by numerous