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A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks [electronic resource] : Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil / Laura Jarnagin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarnagin, Laura.
- Series:
- Atlantic Crossings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Social aspects--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
- Capitalism.
- American Confederate voluntary exiles--Brazil.
- American Confederate voluntary exiles.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Brazil--History.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Merchants--Social networks--Brazil--History.
- Merchants.
- Atlantic Ocean Region--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--History.
- Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Summary:
- A Confluence of Transatlantic Network demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a century and a half and eventually converged to engender, promote, and facilitate the migration of southern elites to Brazil in the post-Civil War era. Placing that migration in the context of the Atlantic world sharpens our understanding of the transborder dynamic of such mainstream nineteenth-century historical currents as international commerce, liberalism, Protestantism, and Freemasonry. The manifestati
- Contents:
- Contexts
- Systems, capitalism, networking, and migration
- An overview of Confederate migration to Brazil
- A transatlantic family
- The Avelar Broteros and the Dabneys
- John Bass Dabney, Monsieur Projet
- The evolution of a mercantile dynasty
- Cultural and commercial synergies
- Transatlantic mercantile networks
- Transatlantic commission houses
- Coffee merchants and Confederate migration to Brazil
- Reverberations of a Protestant diaspora
- Intersecting and expanding networks
- Migration processes
- Southerners making choices
- A confluence of transatlantic networks.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-286) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8040-X
- OCLC:
- 899266127
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