{"product_id":"diversity-and-empires-9781032325859","title":"Diversity and Empires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Religion and the negotiation of belonging\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Old and New Members: Religious and Civic Conversion in the Iberian Worlds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamar Herzog, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. In and beyond the Portuguese Empire: Coping with marriage ritual diversity in early modern Goa \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ngela Barreto Xavier, University of Lisbon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Barrido: A thief, Christian and Pulaya. The implications of categorization on the eighteenth century Malabar coast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Geelen, International Institute of Social History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Slavery and legal status\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The uses and management of Indigenous, African and mixed-raced identities in the legal sphere in Portuguese Amazonia (18th century)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndré Luís Ferreira, Federal University of Pará \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Experiences of enslaved persons with criminal justice and social control on Curaçao, 1730-1740\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStef Vink, Leiden University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Indigenous populations and labor in the Dutch colonial empire – the example of the Cape and the Guianas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRafaël Thiebaut, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Subjecthood and imperial states\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Making Peace Beyond the Line: Capitulations, Interpolity Law, and Political Pluralism in Suriname and New Netherland, 1664-1675\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimo McGregor, London School of Economics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Imperfect Strangers: Frenchmen, foreigners and illegality in 18th-century Guadeloupe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTessa de Boer, Leiden University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4: Diversity in theory and practice: a longue durée perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State and Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-Century South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargret Frenz, University of Stuttgart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Diversity as a fact of imperial life: Diversity as a fact of imperial life: a long-term view on Russia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Burbank, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018976690519,"sku":"9781032325859","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032325859.jpg?v=1750778888","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diversity-and-empires-9781032325859","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}