An aqueous territory : sailor geographies and New Granada's transimperial greater Caribbean world

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An aqueous territory : sailor geographies and New Granada's transimperial greater Caribbean world

Ernesto Bassi

Duke University Press, 2016

  • : hardcover
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-329) and index

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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. Exploring the "lived geographies" of the region's dwellers, Bassi challenges preconceived notions of the existence of discrete imperial spheres and the inevitable emergence of independent nation-states while providing insights into how people envision their own futures and make sense of their place in the world.

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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. Simon 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

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