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Subject(s)

• Cities and towns—Atlantic Ocean Region—History [Browse]
• Civilization, Modern [Browse]
• Atlantic Ocean Region—Civilization [Browse]
• Atlantic Ocean Region—Relations [Browse]

Editor

• Von Morzé, Leonard, 1975- [Browse]

Series

• New urban Atlantic [More in this series]
• The new urban Atlantic

Summary note

This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world. The contributors attend to the various forms and norms of cultural representation in Atlantic history, examining a wealth of diverse topics such as the Portuguese Atlantic; the Spanish Empire; Guy Fawkes and the conspiratorial rhetoric of slaves; Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar; and the writings of Jane Austen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Benjamin Franklin, and others. By interpreting Atlantic urban history through sustained attention to customs and representational forms, an international group of nine contributors demonstrate the power of culture in the making of Atlantic urban experience, even as they acknowledge the harsh realities of economic history. .

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Spatial organization in the early modern Atlantic. Invisible cities : natural and social space in Colonial Brazil / Anaya Chakravarti ; Courtly ceremonies and a cultural urban geography of power in the Habsburg Spanish empire / Alejandra B. Osorio ; Pirates, politicians and urban intellectuals : toward a cultural history of the Atlantic Frontier / R. Malcolm Smuts
• Figures of the circulating self. "Blazing effects" : the 1605 Gunpowder Treason and the rhetoric of slave conspiracy / Steven Bellomy ; Circling the squares : city-building in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography / Betsy Klimasmith ; Atlantic thinking in Jane Austen's novels / Elizabeth Fay
• Imagined cities and Atlantic modernism. Open doors, closed spaces : the transatlantic imaginary in American city writing from postrevolutionary literature to modernism / Stefan L. Brandt ; English-Canadian actresses and the multiple networks of the urban Atlantic, 1890s-1920s / Cecilia Morgan ; A museum is born : Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar, 1936 / Mark Hinchman.

ISBN

• 9781137541291 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
• 1137541296 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))

LCCN

2017943461

OCLC

995393957

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