Early Modern Atlantic Cities

Mariana Dantas, Emma Hart (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

104 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46806-0 (ISBN)

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The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and towns became essential to the transformations that occurred in this early modern era. This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. A source of analogous experiences of division as well as unity, they helped shape the Atlantic world as a coherent geography of analysis.

1. Introduction; 2. Cities and Atlantic Encounters; 3. Cities and Atlantic Empires; 4. Cities and Atlantic Freedoms. 5. Conclusion; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Global Urban History
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-009-46806-5 / 1009468065
ISBN-13	978-1-009-46806-0 / 9781009468060
Zustand	Neuware