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- Title
Well, that escalated slowly: Prekäre Balancen, Konflikt und Eskalation in Briefbeziehungen zwischen Frankreich und den Karibikkolonien, 1778–1793.
- Authors
Raapke, Annika
- Abstract
The men and women who brought about the European colonial expansion in the eighteenth century were frequently separated for long periods from their spouses, families and friends. Relationships inevitably had to happen across long distances, by means of letters, which had to maintain and secure stable ties. Historical research has intensively studied these long-distance relationships, usually regarding conflict within them as an inevitable but perilous factor. In view of the large number of conflicts which are preserved in eighteenth-century transatlantic communication, this article proposes a different perspective: it asks how epistolary conflict may have served to intensify long distance relationships, change their power structures or simply help them adjust to new conditions of community and belonging.
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.7788/hian.2021.29.2.189