Ernesto Bassi

An Aqueous Territory

Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ernesto Bassi is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362203
• ISBN-10: 0822362201
• Artikelnr.: 45375118

Autorenporträt

Ernesto Bassi

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Uncovering Other Possible Worlds  1
Part I. Spatial Configurations
1. Vessels: Routes, Size, and Frequency  23
2. Sailors: Border Crossers and Region Makers  55
Part II. Geopolitics and Geopolitical Imagination
3. Maritime Indians, Cosmopolitan Indians  85
4. Turning South before Swinging East  114
5. Simón Bolivar's Caribbean Adventures  142
6. An Andean-Atlantic Nation  172
Conclusion: Of Alternative Geographies and Pausible Futures  204
Appendixes  213
Notes  243
Bibliography  297
Index  331