Susanah Shaw Romney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanah Shaw Romney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanah Shaw |
| FAMILY NAME | Romney |
| SIGNATURE | ROMNEY S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
Reytory von Angola was taken from the west coast of Africa and carried to the island of Manhattan, to the infant Dutch town of New Amsterdam sometime between 1626 and 1640. What awaited her there was a life of struggle, loss, and love. Her life demonstrates the challenges of claiming freedom for those with female bodies. Freedom required claiming family, claiming land, claiming human affections, claiming a role as a wife and a widow and a mother,…
With & alongside his housewife: Claiming Ground in New Netherland and the Early Modern Dutch Empire
Gender relationships fundamentally supported the Dutch seaborne mercantile empire. In the seventeenth-century Netherlands, housewives and households anchored the civic world on which commerce depended. As Dutch traders, planners, and merchants sought to build profitable footholds around the world, they repeatedly turned to the idea that colonial outposts needed female inhabitants; transatlantic migrants similarly sought to further their own inter…
Savage Comparisons: Dutch Cultural Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century Southern Africa and North America
During the seventeenth century the Dutch built a global economic system that depended on contact and trade with many different peoples and cultures. To create those connections, Dutch writers particularized and described those cultures to elaborate the role local peoples might play in Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade networks. Yet in southern Africa travelers who encountered Khoekhoe people often described them simply as wilden, or savages. Their …
New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Journal Article New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America Get access Susanah Shaw Romney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii, 318 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 525–526, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav489 Published: 01 September 2015
New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Journal Article New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America Get access Susanah Shaw Romney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii, 318 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 525–526, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav489 Published: 01 September 2015
With & alongside his housewife: Claiming Ground in New Netherland and the Early Modern Dutch Empire
Gender relationships fundamentally supported the Dutch seaborne mercantile empire. In the seventeenth-century Netherlands, housewives and households anchored the civic world on which commerce depended. As Dutch traders, planners, and merchants sought to build profitable footholds around the world, they repeatedly turned to the idea that colonial outposts needed female inhabitants; transatlantic migrants similarly sought to further their own inter…
Savage Comparisons: Dutch Cultural Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century Southern Africa and North America
During the seventeenth century the Dutch built a global economic system that depended on contact and trade with many different peoples and cultures. To create those connections, Dutch writers particularized and described those cultures to elaborate the role local peoples might play in Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade networks. Yet in southern Africa travelers who encountered Khoekhoe people often described them simply as wilden, or savages. Their …
New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Journal Article New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America Get access Susanah Shaw Romney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii, 318 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 525–526, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav489 Published: 01 September 2015
With & alongside his housewife: Claiming Ground in New Netherland and the Early Modern Dutch Empire
Gender relationships fundamentally supported the Dutch seaborne mercantile empire. In the seventeenth-century Netherlands, housewives and households anchored the civic world on which commerce depended. As Dutch traders, planners, and merchants sought to build profitable footholds around the world, they repeatedly turned to the idea that colonial outposts needed female inhabitants; transatlantic migrants similarly sought to further their own inter…
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
Reytory von Angola was taken from the west coast of Africa and carried to the island of Manhattan, to the infant Dutch town of New Amsterdam sometime between 1626 and 1640. What awaited her there was a life of struggle, loss, and love. Her life demonstrates the challenges of claiming freedom for those with female bodies. Freedom required claiming family, claiming land, claiming human affections, claiming a role as a wife and a widow and a mother,…
History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works)