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An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World

An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World

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Caribbean HistoryGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 0822362406
ISBN13: 9780822362401
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 3 2017
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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