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3 - The Americas and the Contested Aquatic World of the Atlantic, Indian, and the Pacific Oceans

from Part I - Geographies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

By
Rainer F. Buschmann
Edited by
Eliga Gould ,
Paul Mapp  and
Carla Gardina Pestana
Eliga Gould
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire
Paul Mapp
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary, Virginia
Carla Gardina Pestana
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Summary

Rather than undertake an almost impossible task to render a coherent history of three oceans between the years of 1500 to 1800, this chapter seeks to address three interrelated issues. It first explores the novelty of aquatic historiography and its contestations. Second, it investigates the interrelationship between imagined and physical manifestations of oceanic and terrestrial space. Lastly, the chapter considers how Europeans sought to integrate and project hegemony over oceanic space.

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The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 80 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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