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Marrero uses the Le Pésant affair of 1706 as a turning point in this process and she notes that the colonial authorities' shifting attitudes reflected the growing sense of a new political agency in Detroit. Marrero sets herself the task of examining the evolving kinship networks as they developed over the course of Detroit's first century. Marrero really hits her stride in the next two chapters as she examines the role of women in the French-Indigenous family networks and at the center of the events comprising (what she calls) Pontiac's war. [Extracted from the article]

The final chapter of this section is devoted to the relationship between Inquisition and painting, and to the identity of some Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Jews and Muslims made visible in Christian Iberia and beyond, 14th to 18th centuries. The papers written by Amadeo Serra and Maria Portmann focus on the link between the mass conversions of the end of the fourteenth century and the pictorial representations of Jews. [Extracted from the article]

One chapter in this book is dedicated to her mass of ballooning ephemera, and readers wanting still more can go to Kacie Wills and Erica Y. Hayes's www.sarahsophiabanks.com for a survey of her collection of African money. Russell, Gillian.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii, 304 pp. [Extracted from the article]