An aqueous territory : sailor geographies and New Granada's transimperial greater Caribbean world / / Ernesto Bassi

• Autore: Bassi Ernesto <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 320.1/2
• Soggetto topico: Geopolitics - Caribbean Area; Imperialism
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Boundaries; Caribbean Area Commerce; Caribbean Area History; Caribbean Area Politics and government
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 'An Aqueous Territory' Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he 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. Bassi demonstrates that 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: An aqueous territory
• ISBN: 0-8223-7373-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150197903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II