Diversity and Empires

Examining 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.

Autorentext

Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp) is an economic and social historian of French and Dutch early modern colonialism and colonial trade. She is the author of the 2020 monograph The Agency of Empire : Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746) and has published in English, French, and Dutch.

Sophie Rose is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen with an interest in the colonial Dutch Caribbean, global history, and the history of morality. She is currently adapting her PhD dissertation, Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire, into a book.

Inhalt

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

Ângela 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