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):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2016.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100279

ISBN:

9781478091134

OCLC:

950751161

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access