{"title":"‘Now Nothing are so Numerous’","authors":"G. Pollio","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Piled carpets, whether of Eastern or European production, appeared in colonial homes soon after the colonisation of North America in the early 17th century. Initially displayed on tables and cupboards, they were subsequently used as floor coverings in the homes of political and social elites. Over the 18th century Eastern carpets appear to have lost their original semiotic function: ‘English’ having become synonymous with elegance, led colonial consumers increasingly to substitute carpets made in Great Britain for those imported from Persia or Turkey; this shift was motivated in large part by both the wider range of English styles and their lower cost. Probate inventories provide much of the information on the position of carpets in colonial homes. Such data are subject to various shortcomings, which are noted and discussed, especially in relation to their use as valuation measures.","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"70-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48519972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Une histoire de la Guinée, edited by Anthony Benezet","authors":"Michaël Roy","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"134-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43313812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic’s Age of Sail, written by Matthew R. Bahar","authors":"Christoph Strobel","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"116-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46606148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slavery at the Court of the ‘Humanist Prince’ Reexamining Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and his Role in Slavery, Slave Trade and Slave-smuggling in Dutch Brazil","authors":"Carolina Monteiro, E. Odegard","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000From 1630 until its fall in 1654, the Dutch West India Company maintained a colony in northeastern Brazil where it tried to profit from the cultivation of sugar using enslaved African labor. Count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen served as this colony’s governor-general from 1636 until 1644, this being the most heavily studied period of the colony’s existence. But the role of Johan Maurits in the transatlantic slave trade and enslavement in Brazil is poorly covered by research, with some historians recently arguing that there is ‘no proof’ of any personal involvement. This article presents a clear argument for the personal involvement of Johan Maurits in the slave trade and shows his involvement in slave-smuggling. Understanding the social relations between the count, his court and the Luso-Brazilian elite is in fact simply impossible without bringing in the trade and smuggling of enslaved Africans.","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46003584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century, edited by L. H. Roper","authors":"David Chaunu","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"126-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44082603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500–1850, written by Cameron B. Strang, (2018)","authors":"Bryan C. Rindfleisch","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"109-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41764698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society, written by Cécile Vidal, (2019)","authors":"Celine B Ugolini","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"131-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42566449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Riesgo, desastre y miedo en la península Ibérica y México durante la Edad Moderna, edited by Armando Alberola Romá","authors":"J. M. Daniel","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"141-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45052069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To “experiment with a parcel of negros”","authors":"Dennis J. Maika","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In late 1659, the Dutch West India Company’s Amsterdam Chamber began an “experiment” intended to bring a regularized slave trade to New Amsterdam. With Curaçao as a reliable source of enslaved Africans, the Amsterdam Chamber opened the slave trade to independent investors and merchants, following a collaborative model between a state-sponsored corporation and private investors used elsewhere in the seventeenth-century Dutch Atlantic world. A variety of commercial actors responded to the experiment, devising speculative strategies to incorporate enslaved people into their commercial portfolios. This essay tracks the strategies conceived by New Amsterdam merchants, local wic representatives, and some independent Amsterdam investors, and reveals the experiment’s uneven progression, modulated by changing regional conditions and regular adjustments and reversals by the Amsterdam Chamber. This article adds a new dimension to studies of the early North American regional slave trade, typically seen from an English perspective, by appreciating Dutch New Amsterdam’s legacy.","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"33-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45201565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Marche sur Yorktown, edited by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Iris de Rode","authors":"Edmond Dziembowski","doi":"10.1163/18770703-01001011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-01001011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53896,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early American History","volume":"10 1","pages":"137-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49592101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}