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The Sun King's Atlantic : drugs, demons and dyestuffs in the Atlantic world, 1640-1730
La 4e de couv. indique : "In The Sun King's Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for contemporaries at the time, Africa and America were omnipresent throu...
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| Format : | Thèse ou mémoire |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The Sun King's Atlantic : drugs, demons and dyestuffs in the Atlantic world, 1640-1730 / by Jutta Wimmler |
| Publié : |
Leiden, Boston :
Brill
, copyright 2017 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XII-229 p.) |
| Collection : | The Atlantic world ; 33 |
| Note de thèse : | Texte remanié de : Thèse de doctorat : [Religion] : Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria : 2011 |
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| Documents associés : | Autre format:
The Sun King's Atlantic |
- Sugar and slaves? French Atlantic trade before 1730
- State interests and regional privileges
- From tobacco to cotton
- West Africa and the slave trade
- From the visible to the invisible
- The fashionable Atlantic: innovation and consumption
- The color revolution
- Gum arabic and blue-white cottons
- The world of interior design
- Leather
- Industries and fur trades
- Body matters: remedies, foodstuffs and cosmetics
- American remedies in France
- A quiet consumer revolution
- Old elites and the nouvelle cuisine
- The scent of Western Africa
- The iatrochemical advantage: methods for an expanding world
- New pathogens and the rise of botany
- Distillation and the Academie Royale des Sciences
- The authority of knowledge
- A two-sided Atlantic?
- Perfect French subjects: staging the Atlantic world
- Africans and Indians on stage
- Tackling the stereotypes
- America and Africa in the news
- Devils and martyrs: religious concepts travel the globe
- Missionaries and martyrs
- The devil and his beatings
- Witches and sorcerers
- Epilogue