The Sun King's Atlantic : : drugs, demons and dyestuffs in the Atlantic world, 1640-1730 / / by Jutta Wimmler.

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 throughout early modern France: in the t...

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Superior document:Atlantic World, Volume 33
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource (243 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Sugar and Slaves? French Atlantic Trade before 1730
  • The Fashionable Atlantic: Innovation and Consumption
  • Body Matters: Remedies, Foodstuffs and Cosmetics
  • The Iatrochemical Advantage: Methods for an Expanding World
  • Perfect French Subjects: Staging the Atlantic World
  • Devils and Martyrs: Religious Concepts Travel the Globe
  • Epilogue
  • Annex: Tables
  • Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.