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Summary:

"When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. It would also become the commercial and administrative seat of the Dutch West India Company in the Americas. The island's main city, Willemstad, had a non-Dutch majority composed largely of free blacks, urban slaves, and Sephardic Jews, who communicated across ethnic divisions in a new creole language called Papiamentu. For Linda M. Rupert, the emergence of this creole language was one of the two defining phenomena that gave shape to early modern Curaçao. The other was smuggling. Both developments, she argues, were informal adaptations to life in a place that was at once polyglot and regimented. They were the sort of improvisations that occurred wherever expanding European empires thrust different peoples together. Creolization and Contraband uses the history of Curaçao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of social, cultural, and linguistic exchange in the early modern world. Rupert argues that by breaking through multiple barriers, smuggling opened particularly rich opportunities for cross-cultural and interethnic interaction. Far from marginal, these extra-official exchanges were the very building blocks of colonial society."--Project Muse.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Emergence of an Entrepot
• 1. Converging Currents
• 2. Atlantic Diasporas
• 3. "Cruising to the Most Advantageous Places"
• pt. II Sociocultural Interactions in a Maritime Trade Economy
• 4. Caribbean Port City
• 5. Curacao and Tierra Firme
• 6. Language and Creolization.

Author/Creator:

Rupert, Linda Marguerite

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Creolization and contraband: Curaçao in the early modern Atlantic world [by Rupert, L.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Creolization and contraband [by Rupert, L.M.] (Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012 — ISBN 9780820343051; LCCN 2011050386)

Related Series:

Early American places

Subjects:

Curaçao — History — 17th century

Curaçao — History — 18th century

Curaçao — Commerce — History

Curaçao — Social conditions

Creoles — Curaçao — History

Enslaved persons — Curaçao — History

Sephardim — Curaçao — History

Intercultural communication — Curaçao — History

Papiamentu — Curaçao — History

Smuggling — Curaçao — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

F2049 .R87 2012

ISBNs:

9780820343686
0820343684
9780820343051 [Invalid]
0820343056 [Invalid]
9780820343068 [Invalid]
0820343064 [Invalid]
9782820340368 [Invalid]
2820340369 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 9786613662729

OCLC Numbers:

1053482664

Other Control Numbers:

457287 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp7460277