Browsing Department of History by Subject "Transatlantic history"
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“EVERY GOOD MAN IS A QUAKER, AND THAT NONE BUT GOOD MEN ARE QUAKERS”: TRANSATLANTIC QUAKER HUMANITARIANS, DISABILITY, AND MARKETING ENLIGHTENED REFORM, 1730-1834
(2016-02-24)This dissertation explores how Quaker humanitarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries actively absorbed and employed emerging Enlightenment discourses about “disability” and human dependency as a means to build ... -
Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740
(2020-06-03)In the last two years of the seventeenth century, approximately 3,000 people, mostly Scottish merchants, soldiers, sailors and their families, migrated to a small coastal region in central America for the purpose of ... -
Transatlantic History: Locating and Naming an Emergent Field of Study
(Transatlantic History Student Organisation (THSO)Department of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This article outlines the contours of transatlantic history and identifies some of the works that fit within its parameters. It argues that transatlantic history ...