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Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World
The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era. The book's first section deals with European migration to transatlantic and Asian destinations, the second and third sections focus on the Atlantic slave trade and representations of slavery, and the final section analyzes the demise and legacy of slavery. The authors reach surprising conclusions: European expansion did not entail major economic benefits; the small scale of the Europeans' intercontinental migration never jeopardized their colonial projects; and the unique popular nature of British abolitionism can be explained in part by the growth of the newspaper press in the mid-eighteenth century, which regularly reported about slave ship revolts.
Imagining the Americas in Print
In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which publishers and printers in early modern Europe gathered information about the Americas, constructed a narrative, and used it to further colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world (1500–1700). The essays examine the creative ways in which knowledge was manufactured in printing workshops. Collectively they bring to life the vivid print culture that determined the relationship between the Old World and the New in the Age of Encounters, and chart the genres that reflected and shaped the European imagination, and helped to legitimate ideologies of colonialism in the next two centuries.
German Immigrants
A partial reconstruction of Bremen passenger lists based on U.S. sources. Not all Bremen passengers are included; only those giving a specific place of origin in Germany. This is about 21%; those giving only "Germany" as place of origin was about 79%.
Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World
Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World, edited by Richard Kirwan and Sophie Mullins, investigates an underexplored yet important facet of early modern book production. Bringing together 19 detailed case studies, this volume considers and reconstructs the characteristics of specialist book production in the early modern period. In particular it explores the motives that led to specialisation ranging from the desire for profit on the part of risk-taking, entrepreneurial individuals or family firms to the more propagandist or missionising aims of corporate groups who subsidised production, often without regard for profit. The book also explores the economic and personal pressures and perils that accompanied specialist production, which was often a risk-laden enterprise that could end in financial and social ruin.
Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989
Interdisciplinary views of the debates over and transformation of German cultural identity since unification. The events of 1989 and German unification were seismic historical moments. Although 1989 appeared to signify a healing of the war-torn history of the twentieth century, unification posed the question of German cultural identity afresh. Politicians, historians, writers, filmmakers, architects, and the wider public engaged in "memory contests" over such questions as the legitimacy of alternative biographies, West German hegemony, and the normalization of German history. This dynamic, contested, and still ongoing transformation of German cultural identity is the topic of this volume of ...
1448 - 2023. 575 Jahre Dorfkirche Kollmar
Das Jahr 1448 gilt als Baujahr der Dorfkirche zu Kollmar. Damit existierte sie 2023 seit 575 Jahren. Dieses Buch enthält eine ausführliche Chronologie der Baugeschichte und des Kirchenlebens auf 243 Seiten mit über 250 meist farbigen Abbildungen. Als das Kirchspiel Asfleth im 14. Jahrhundert langsam von den Fluten der Elbe verschlungen wurde, übernahm Colmer dessen Funktion. Nachdem aber die erste Kirche des neuen Kirchspiels am Langenbrook ebenfalls bei Sturmfluten nicht sicher war, errichteten vermutlich die damaligen Herren in der Kollmarer Marsch eine neue Kirche am jetzigen Standort. In der katholischen Zeit gehörten die Insassen des Gutes Kollmar und Seestermüher Anteils zur Kirc...
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