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Author Wimmler, Jutta, author

Title The Sun King's Atlantic : drugs, demons and dyestuffs in the Atlantic world, 1640-1730 / by Jutta Wimmler
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages)
Series The Atlantic world ; 33
Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 33.
Contents 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
Summary "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 textile industry, pharmaceutics, medicine, scientific methods, religious discourse, and court theatre. The book moves beyond typical plantation crops and the slave trade to illustrate how a focus on Europe challenges us to rethink the place of Africa in the early modern world."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 27, 2017)
Subject Material culture -- France -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
Civilization -- African influences
Civilization -- Caribbean influences
Commerce
French colonies
Material culture
SUBJECT Atlantic Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History
Caribbean Area -- Commerce -- France -- History
Africa, West -- Commerce -- France -- History
France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051304
France -- Colonies -- Commerce -- America
France -- Colonies -- Commerce -- Africa
France -- Civilization -- Caribbean influences
France -- Civilization -- African influences
Subject Africa
West Africa
America
Atlantic Ocean Region
Caribbean Area
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017000844
ISBN 9789004336087
9004336087
9004336079
9789004336070
Other Titles Drugs, demons and dyestuffs in the Atlantic world, 1640-1730