Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World

From the Early Modern to Modernism

Leonard von Morzé

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781137541291
• eBook ISBN: 9781137526069
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Literature

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. 

Table of contents

• Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World
• Part I Spatial Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic
• Part II Figures of the Circulating Self
• Part III Imagined Cities and Atlantic Modernism
• General Index
• Index Of City Names