Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England

• Main Author: Das, Nandini (auth)
• Other Authors: Vicente Melo, João (auth), Smith, Haig (auth), Working, Lauren (auth), Melo, João Vicente (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam University Press 2021
• Series: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World 3
• Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Culture, terminology, early modern, race, migration, identity
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Following the model of Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the concepts, preconceptions, and debates that they embody - or sometimes subsume - came to play formative roles in the articulation of identity, rights, and power in subsequent periods. Together, the essays in this volume provide an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the development of issues of identity, belonging, and human mobility.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (359 p.)

ISBN

9789463720748
9789048552283

Access

Open Access