The Sun King's Atlantic

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The Sun King's Atlantic is written by Jutta Wimmler and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004336087 (ISBN 10) and 9789004336087 (ISBN 13).

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.