Crossings and Encounters: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Atlantic World

(Cloth US$49.99) Among books on the Atlantic world, Crossings and Encounters is notable for its foregrounding of gender and sexuality as categories of analysis and its sweeping geographic and temporal scope, stretching from the global Dutch empire of the seventeenth century to a drama premiered in Vienna, Austria in 2011. Pushing back on a celebratory approach to the Atlantic, one that prizes (potential) mobility and (notable) individuals, has been one of the major contributions of studies that use gender as a lens, particularly alongside race, in an intersectional approach. Joshua Bearden uses court records to explore the deployment of different gender expectations in southeastern North America as Native women with White husbands argued for their respective property rights.