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

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...

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Autore principale: Bassi, Ernesto, 1978- (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
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Sommario:
  • 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.