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oapen-20.500.12657-317642021-11-04T14:12:20Z An Aqueous Territory Bassi, Ernesto History Colombia Haiti Jamaica Riohacha Santa Marta Spain United States Wayuu people bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas 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. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:48:44Z 2020-04-01T13:48:44Z 2016-12-23 book 625270 OCN: 950751161 9780822373735 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31764 eng application/pdf n/a 625270.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822373735 100279 10.1215/9780822373735 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822373735 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham NC 100279 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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