Description
Book SynopsisExamining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed the questions of how to manage diversity.
These questions range from the local to the supra-regional, and from the management of people to that of political and judicial systems. Taking an intersectional approach incorporating categories such as race, religion, subjecthood, and social and legal status, the contributions of the volume show how old and new modes of creating social difference took shape in an increasingly globalized early modern world, and what contemporary legacies these diversity formations' left behind. This volume shows diversity and imperial projects to be both contentious and mutually constitutive: on the one hand, the conditions of empire created divisions between people through official categorizations (such as racial classifications and designations of subjecthood) and through discriminately
Table of Contents
Part 1: Religion and the negotiation of belonging
Chapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian Worlds
Tamar Herzog, Harvard University
Chapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa
ngela Barreto Xavier, University of Lisbon
Chapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coast
Alexander Geelen, International Institute of Social History
Part 2: Slavery and legal status
Chapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century)
André Luís Ferreira, Federal University of Pará
Chapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curaçao, 1730-1740
Stef Vink, Leiden University
Chapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire – the example of the Cape and the Guianas
Rafaël Thiebaut, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Part 3: Subjecthood and imperial states
Chapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675
Timo McGregor, London School of Economics
Chapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century Guadeloupe
Tessa de Boer, Leiden University
Part 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue durée perspective
Chapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Margret Frenz, University of Stuttgart
Chapter 10. Diversity as a fact of imperial life: Diversity as a fact of imperial life: a long-term view on Russia
Jane Burbank, New York University
