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Jacob Leisler's Atlantic World in the Later Seventeenth Century
Jaap Jacobs
其他書名
Essays on Religions, Militia, Trade and Networks
出版
LIT Verlag Münster
, 2009
主題
History / General
History / North America
History / Europe / Renaissance
History / Europe / Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / European American Studies
ISBN
3643103247
9783643103246
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JJUNOIbteXEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Jacob Leisler emigrated to the Dutch colony of Nieu Nederlandt in North America in 1660. He was the son of a Reformed minister and hailed from Frankfurt on the Main. To posterity Jacob Leisler is known for his role during the Glorious Revolution in 1689 as rebel against the English governor of the colony of New York - for which he was cruelly put to death in 1691. The essays in this collection show that Leisler's world had many more faces and sides: there is the military aspect of Leisler's career, the mercantile world in which Leisler lived (and was captured by Algerian pirates), the religious world that got him into a fierce fight with a Dutch-Reformed pastor, and finally the larger ideological, political, and economic context that ranges from a study of the role of the little port of Dover (England) to the larger issues related to the role of colonies in the Atlantic economy and the British Empire. A number of general themes hold the essays together: Two are of particular importance: The Atlantic nature of religion and the transnational character of the Atlantic economy. Most of the essays were presentations to a workshop held at the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change at the National University of Ireland in Galway.