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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bassi, Ernesto, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Caribbean Area.

Geopolitics.

Imperialism.

Caribbean Area--Boundaries.

Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area--Commerce.

Caribbean Area--History.

Caribbean Area--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Durham NC Duke University Press 2016

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822373735

0822373734