Maritime Communities of the Early Modern Atlantic

An international conference co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the Borchard Foundation at the Chateau de la Bretesche, Missillac, France

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Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne

‘A Chaos of Men, Negroes and Things’: Slavery in Kingston, Jamaica, 1722-1784

Albane Forestier, Centre Roland Mousnier

Commerce and credit in late eighteenth-century French Atlantic ports

David Hancock, University of Michigan

‘A Place for Strangers’: Foreigners and the Integration of the Atlantic World

Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews

Oceans of Water and Acres of Land: Authority, Distance, and the Market Culture of Early America, 1670-1720

Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University

The Demography of Maritime Communities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Peter C. Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute

The Raw and the Cold: Five Abandoned Sailors in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic

Mark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley

From Christian Athens to Christian Sparta: The Militarization of Imperial Relations and the Demise of Boston’s Commonwealth of Trade 1740-1776

Keith Pluymers, USC

‘Pirates’ and the problems of plantation in seventeenth-century Ireland

Louis Sicking, Leiden University

Maritime interest groups and their risk reducing strategies: The Netherlands in the sixteenth century

Cécile Vidal, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Ethnic and Racial Categories in French Colonial Louisiana