Early Modern Atlantic Cities |
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| Author:
| Dantas, Mariana
Hart, Emma |
| Series title: | Elements in Global Urban History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-108-78293-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.