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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Atlantic History"”.
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Living Beyond Frontiers Social Network Analysis of Genoese Merchants in the Castilian Atlantic 1450-1530
… the role of Genoese merchants in the Castilian Atlantic from 1450- 1530. It aims to study through quantitative analysis their community, forms of association, and financial enterprises. Furthermore, it takes the study of the sugar cane production and the beginning of the transatlantic slave …
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Language, Identity, and Power in Colonial Brazil, 1695-1822
… and power within the theoretical framework of Atlantic history between 1695 and 1822. Atlantic history contributes to our understanding of the ways in which peoples, materials, institutions and ideas moved across Iberia, Africa and the Americas without overlooking the new contours that these …
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From sweetwater to seawater: An environmental history of Narragansett Bay, 1636--1849
… New England as a means to write estuaries into Atlantic history. Examining the ecological and epistemological complexities that arose at the nexus of land and sea, where improvable space and the push of "progress" met an eternal or "profound" ocean, this study reframes estuaries as watery …
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Homeward Bound: The Influence of Emigration and Return on Aezkoa Valley and its Surrounding Rural Communities in Northern Navarre at the turn of the 19th Century
The aim of this dissertation is to provide a study on Basque transnational migration from the perspective of the homeland. The goal is to see to what extent this transnational migration influenced and impacted local communities in the rural Basque area, concretely in Aezkoa Valley and other …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… London moralizers demanded a crusade against the Atlantic slave trade, as well as natural-right policies that lured fugitive slaves and harassed the South with the Underground Railroad, London realists could be expected to frustrate their larger purpose. Southerners’ assurance in the security of …
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Mellem afrikaner og kreol : etnisk identitet og social navigation i Dansk Vestindien 1730–1770
… were influenced and creolized by the trans-Atlantic journey and the realities of life in the slave society. The second chapter investigates the connections between the identification by African Caribbeans with African ethnic terms and cultural traits, and the formation of social networks in …
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Fragmented Landscapes: An Archaeology of Transformations in The Pra River Basin, Southern Ghana
… integrated view of the landscape's long human history. The primary temporal focus of this research is the past three millennia but evidence recovered of even more ancient eras is also examined. The artifacts and features documented while surveying this landscape allow us to glimpse pre-Atlantic …
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Pirates in the Age of Projects, 1688-1707
This dissertation retells the history of pirates in the anglophone world, 1688-1707. It argues that the appellation “pirate” became applied to some within global seafaring communities as part of a contest among people of middling means to define the purpose and organisation of overseas expansion. …