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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bassi, Ernesto, 1978- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Free online access: Knowledge Unlatched.
Subject:	Geopolitics -- Caribbean Area. Imperialism. Boundaries. Commerce. Geopolitics. Imperialism. Politics and government. Caribbean Area -- Boundaries. Caribbean Area -- Commerce. Caribbean Area -- History. Caribbean Area -- Politics and government. Caribbean Area. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11660205

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ISBN:	9780822373735 0822373734 9780822362203 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0822362201 9780822362401 0822362406
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 In English. digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Description based on print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Bassi, Ernesto, 1978- author. Aqueous territory Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 9780822362203

Table of Contents:

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.