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An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World
Book
2017
Published by:
Duke University Press
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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. 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 while providing insights into how people envision their own futures and make sense of their place in the world.
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
pp. vii-viii
Acknowledgments
pp. ix-xii
Introduction: Uncovering Other Possible Worlds
pp. 1-20
Part I. Spatial Configurations
1. Vessels: Routes, Size, and Frequency
pp. 23-54
2. Sailors: Border Crossers and Region Makers
pp. 55-82
Part II. Geopolitics and Geopolitical Imagination
3. Maritime Indians, Cosmopolitan Indians
pp. 85-113
4. Turning South before Swinging East
pp. 114-141
5. Simón BolÃvarâs Caribbean Adventures
pp. 142-171
6. An Andean-Atlantic Nation
pp. 172-203
Conclusion: Of Alternative Geographies and Plausible Futures
pp. 204-212
Appendixes
pp. 213-242
Notes
pp. 243-296
Bibliography
pp. 297-330
Index
pp. 331-346
ISBN | 9780822373735 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9780822362203, 9780822362401, 9781478091134 |
DOI | 10.1353/book.64050![]() |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 1103678007 |
Pages | 360 |
Launched on MUSE | 2019-06-24 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |
Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |
Copyright
2017