Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 345 Seiten)
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illustrations, figures, tables
ISBN:
0822373734
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9780822373735
Content:
This book traces the configuration of a geographic space Bassi calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean, between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives bounded by geopolitical borders. Rather, the cross-border activities of sailors, traders, revolutionaries, indigenous peoples, and others reflected their perceptions of the Caribbean as a transimperial space, where trade, information, and people circulated, both conforming to and in defiance of imperial regulations. The islands, continental coasts, and open waters of the transimperial Greater Caribbean constituted a space that was simultaneously Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Danish, Anglo-American, African, and indigenous. Exploring the "lived geographies" of the region's dwellers, Bassi challenges preconceived notions of the existence of discrete imperial spheres and the inevitable emergence of independent nation-states
Content:
Vessels : routes, size, and frequency -- Sailors : border crossers and region makers -- Maritime Indians, cosmopolitan Indians -- Turning south before swinging east -- Simón Bolívar's Caribbean adventures -- An Andean-Atlantic nation -- Conclusion: Of alternative geographies and plausible futures
Note:
eng
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822362201
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822362401
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822362203
Additional Edition:
Print version An Aqueous Territory, Sailor Geographies and New Granada?s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World Durham, N.C ISBN 9780822362203
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
URL:
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URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
