TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bassi,Ernesto
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - An Aqueous Territory : : Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World / 
SN  - 9780822373735
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Grenze
KW  - gnd
KW  - Geopolitik
KW  - Imperialismus
KW  - Handel
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - fast
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Government
KW  - National
KW  - General
KW  - Essays
KW  - Regional and national history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Humanities
KW  - History
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - Imperialisme
KW  - Geopolitique
KW  - Caraïbes (Region)
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Karibik
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64050/
ER  -