Unlike most books on the Atlantic that associate its history with European colonialism and thus end in 1800, this volume demonstrates that the Atlantic connections not only outlasted colonialism, they also reached unprecedented levels in postcolonial times, when the Atlantic tru…
"In Fire under the Ashes, John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, Cole…
Religion, space, and the Atlantic world
Religion, space, and the Atlantic world
Introduction / Christian Vannier and Timothy R. Landry -- Vodou Genesis: Africans and the Making of a National Religion in Saint-Domingue / Terry Rey -- Universalism and Syncretism in Beninese Vodún / Douglas J. Falen -- Crossing Currents: Gorovodu and Yewevodu in Contemporary T…
"In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the 'broomstick wedding.' Popularly associated with African American culture, Parry traces the ritual's origins to marginalized groups in the British Isles and explores how it i…
(Pseudo)Historical Women's Travels. "Little Atlas" : Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian's The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam / Diana Epelbaum -- Thresholds of Livability : Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyag…
By examining eighteenth-century black Christianity in multiple locales and tracing the circuits of black evangelicals as they traveled through Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, Catron examines how many Afro-Protestants maintained cultural and intellectual ties ou…
By examining eighteenth-century black Christianity in multiple locales and tracing the circuits of black evangelicals as they traveled through Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, Catron examines how many Afro-Protestants maintained cultural and intellectual ties ou…