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Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London

By: Jacob Selwood

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Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London

By: Jacob Selwood

London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a surprisingly diverse place, home not just to people from throughout the British Isles but to a significant population of French and Dutch immigrants, to travelers and refugees from beyond Europe's borderlands and, from the 1650s, to a growing Jewish community. Yet although we know much about the population of the capital of early modern England, we know little about how Londoners conceived of the many peoples of their own city. Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London seeks to rectify this, addressing the question of how the inhabitants of the metropolis ordered the heterogeneity around them. Rather than relying upon literary or theatrical representations, this study emphasizes day-to-day practice, drawing upon petitions, government records, guild minute books and taxation disputes along with plays and printed texts. It shows how the people of London defined belonging and exclusion in the course of their daily actions, through such prosaic activities as the making and selling of goods, the collection of taxes and the daily give and take of guild politics. This book demonstrates that encounters with heterogeneity predate either imperial expansion or post-colonial immigration. In doing so it offers a perspective of interest both to scholars of the early modern English metropolis and to historians of race, migration, imperialism and the wider Atlantic world. An empirical examination of civic economics, taxation and occupational politics that asks broader questions about multiculturalism and Englishness, this study speaks not just to the history of immigration in London itself, but to the wider debate about evolving notions of national identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Routledge

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1317149254

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At Kingdom's Edge

The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject

By: Jacob Selwood

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The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject

By: Jacob Selwood

At Kingdom's Edge investigates how life in a conquered colony both revealed and shaped what it meant to be English outside of the British Isles. Considering the case of Jeronimy Clifford, who rose to become one of Suriname's richest planters, Jacob Selwood examines the mutual influence of race and subjecthood in the early modern world. Clifford was a child in Suriname when the Dutch, in 1667, wrested the South American colony from England soon after England seized control of New Netherland in North America. Across the arc of his life—from time in the tenuous English colony to prosperity as a slaveholding planter to a stint in debtors' prison in London—Clifford used all the tools at his disposal to elevate and secure his status. His English subjecthood, which he clung to as a wealthy planter in Dutch-controlled Suriname, was a ready means to exert political, legal, economic, and cultural authority. Clifford deployed it without hesitation, even when it failed to serve his interests. In 1695 Clifford left Suriname and, until his death, he tried to regain control over his abandoned plantation and its enslaved workers. His evocation of international treaties at times secured the support of the Crown. The English and Dutch governments' responses reveal competing definitions of belonging between and across empires, as well as the differing imperial political cultures with which claimants to rights and privileges had to contend. Clifford's case highlights the unresolved tensions about the meanings of colonial subjecthood, Anglo-Dutch relations, and the legacy of England's seventeenth-century empire.

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Cornell University Press

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1501764233

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Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London

By: Jacob Selwood

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1317149262

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History of King Alfred of England

By: Jacob Abbott

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History of King Alfred of England

By: Jacob Abbott

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have.Considered what we would now call young adult literature, this collection, first published between 1848 and 1871, was designed to present a clear, distinct, connected narrative of the lives of the great figures of world history, those people who have been most influential, at least as American author and educator JACOB ABBOTT (1803-1879) saw it from his 19th-century perspective.Wildly popular and republished many times under different collected names, this replica set mimics the 1904 reprint known as the Makers of History series. It will delight students of history as well as show the scholar how history telling has changed over the last few centuries.More than 30 other volumes in the series are also available from Cosimo Classics.This volume, dating from 1849, covers the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great (849-899), from before his ascension to the throne through the victory over the Danes and beyond.

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274

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Cosimo, Inc.

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160520787X

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9781605207872

Teutonic Mythology 1880-88

By: Jacob Grimm

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Teutonic Mythology 1880-88

By: Jacob Grimm

This pioneering work by Jacob Grimm is arranged in chapters by subjects such as heroes, elves, fire and devil. It is a translation of the fourth German edition and had a notable impact on modern literature and culture.

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628

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Psychology Press

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0415221080

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9780415221085

Teutonic Mythology

Vol. IV

By: Jacob Grimm

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Teutonic Mythology

Vol. IV

By: Jacob Grimm

Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368636049

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London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666

Disaster and Recovery

By: Jacob F. Field

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London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666

Disaster and Recovery

By: Jacob F. Field

The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and systematic use of the wealth of manuscript sources that illustrate social, economic and cultural change in seventeenth-century London to examine the impact of the Fire in terms of how individuals and communities reacted and responded to it, and to put the response to the Fire in the context of existing trends in early modern England. The book also explores the broader effects of the Fire in the rest of the country, as well as how the Great Fire continued to be an important polemical tool into the eighteenth century.

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200

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Routledge

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1351582755

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Makers of History - King Alfred of England

By: Jacob Abbott

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Makers of History - King Alfred of England

By: Jacob Abbott

Originally published in 1849, this work is a non-fiction children's history book focussing on the life and times of Alfred the Great. Jacob Abbot produced many books, most notably his 'Rollo' series, which aimed to instruct young people in moral virtues as well as to keep them entertained. This publication, however, is a part of his 'Makers of History' series that details the lives of important historical figures. We are also republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author. Here is the author's preface to the series explaining its aims: 'It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear, distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those great personages who have in various ages of the world made themselves celebrated as leaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken in the public affairs of great nations, have exerted the widest influence on the history of the human race. The end which the author has had in view is twofold: first, to communicate such information in respect to the subjects of his narratives as is important for the general reader to possess; and, secondly, to draw such moral lessons from the events described and the characters delineated as they may legitimately teach to the people of the present age. Though written in a direct and simple style, they are intended for, and addressed to, minds possessed of some considerable degree of maturity, for such minds only can fully appreciate the character and action which exhibits itself, as nearly all that is described in these volumes does, in close combination with the conduct and policy of governments, and the great events of international history.

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143

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Read Books Ltd

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1473398924

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Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment

By: James R. Jacob

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Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment

By: James R. Jacob

A biography of Henry Stubbe, 1632-76, classicist, polemicist, physician and philosopher.

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236

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Cambridge University Press

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0521520169

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9780521520164

At Kingdom's Edge

The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject

By: Jacob Selwood

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The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject

By: Jacob Selwood

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Cornell University Press

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1501764225

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Book's by Jacob Selwood

Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London

Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London

At Kingdom's Edge

At Kingdom's Edge

Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London

Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London

History of King Alfred of England

History of King Alfred of England

Teutonic Mythology 1880-88

Teutonic Mythology 1880-88

Teutonic Mythology

Teutonic Mythology

London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666

London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666

Makers of History - King Alfred of England

Makers of History - King Alfred of England

Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment

Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment

At Kingdom's Edge

At Kingdom's Edge

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