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ItemKeeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850(Amsterdam University Press, 2020)Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion and Exile, 1550-1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves separated, or faced separation, from their household. The result is a fresh and geographically wide-ranging discussion about the nature of family and its intersection with travel over a three hundred year period during which roles and relationships, within and between households, were increasingly affected by trade, settlement, and empire building. The imperial project may have influenced different regions in different ways at different times yet, as this collection reveals, families, especially those transcending national ties and traditional boundaries were central to its progress. Together, these essays bring new understandings of the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who contributed to it.
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ItemRelationships Lost and Found in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic An Englishman's 'Suffering Rewarded'(AMSTERDAM UNIV PRESS, 2020)At 21, Robert Tomson had become an integral part of an English merchant’s household in Seville and in 1555 he joined their emigration to Mexico. There he fell victim to the Inquisition. After languishing in jails in Mexico City and Seville, Tomson resumed his career in Seville under the protection of another English merchant and married a Spanish heiress. On returning to England, Tomson, eager to avoid accusations of papacy, wrote an account of his experiences. In this chapter I look at the personal relationships and family connections central to his story, exploring a world where marriages that transcended national ties and traditional boundaries were central to individual survival and to the project of national expansion.
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ItemSantiago Matamoros/Mataindios: Adopting an Old World Battlefield Apparition as a New World Representation of Triumph(Routledge, 2021)All essays in this volume focus on the performance and negotiation of identity in situations of cultural contact, with particular emphasis on emotional practices.