Early Modern Atlantic Cities / Mariana Dantas and Emma Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dantas, Mariana, author.

Hart, Emma, 1972- author.

Series:

Elements in global urban history

Elements in Global Urban History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

City and town life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and towns became essential to the transformations that occurred in this early modern era. This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. A source of analogous experiences of division as well as unity, they helped shape the Atlantic world as a coherent geography of analysis

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Mar 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781108805322

1108805329

9781108782937

1108782930