ISBN:
9780822373735
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bassi, Ernesto, 1978- Aqueous territory
DDC:
320.1/2
Keywords:
Geopolitics
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Imperialism
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History of the Americas
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Géopolitique - Caraïbes (Région)
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Impérialisme
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Humanities
;
Regional and national history
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POLITICAL SCIENCE - Essays
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POLITICAL SCIENCE - Government - General
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POLITICAL SCIENCE - Government - National
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POLITICAL SCIENCE - Reference
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Boundaries
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Commerce
;
Geopolitics
;
Imperialism
;
Politics and government
;
History
;
Caribbean Area Boundaries
;
Caribbean Area Commerce
;
Caribbean Area History
;
Caribbean Area Politics and government
;
Caraïbes (Région) - Commerce
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Caraïbes (Région) - Histoire
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Caraïbes (Région) - Politique et gouvernement
;
Caribbean Area
;
Colombia
;
Haiti
;
Jamaica
;
Riohacha
;
Santa Marta
;
Spain
;
United States
;
Wayuu people
;
History
Abstract:
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
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