TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bassi, Ernesto
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822373735
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625270
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 950751161
KW  - History
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Riohacha
KW  - Santa Marta
KW  - Spain
KW  - United States
KW  - Wayuu people
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/30f74c42-792d-4232-bfdd-5b4782a55554/625270.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31764
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham NC
PY  - 2016-12-23
SN  - 9780822373735
TI  - An Aqueous Territory : Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World
ER  - 
