This book takes a fresh look at early modern diasporas, combining religious, cultural, social and economic history to better understand how early modern communication patterns and markets evolved, how consumption patterns changed and what this meant for social, economic and cultural change, how this impacted on what we understand as early developments towards globalization, and how early developments towards globalization, in turn, were constitutive of these.

Dagmar Freist is Professor of Early Modern History at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Susanne Lachenicht is Professor of Early Modern History at Bayreuth University, Germany.

Introduction

[Dagmar Freist and Susanne Lachenicht]

1. The Nation of Naturales del Reino de Granada: Transforming Identities in the Morisco Castilian Diaspora, 1502-1614

[Manuel F. Fernández Chaves and Rafael M. Pérez García]

2. The Huguenots' Maritime Networks, 16th-18th Centuries

[Susanne Lachenicht]

3. The Challenge of Linking Two Worlds: Transatlantic Quaker Connections, the American Revolution, and Abolitionism, 17th-18th Centuries

[Sünne Juterczenka]

4. "A Very Warm Surinam Kiss": Staying Connected, Getting Engaged-Interlacing Social Sites of the Moravian Diaspora

[Dagmar Freist]

5. Owning the Body, Wooing the Soul: How Forced Labor Was Justified in the Moravian Correspondence Network in Eighteenth-Century Surinam

[Jessica Cronshagen]

6. Lutheran Correspondence Networks in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World

[Hermann Wellenreuther]

7. A Diaspora on the Edge of Modernity?: The Jewish Minority in Gothenburg in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

[Anna Brismark and Pia Lundqvist]