Atlantic Crossroads

Unlike most books on the Atlantic that associate its history with European colonialism and thus end in 1800, this volume demonstrates that the connections not only outlasted colonialism, they also reached unprecedented levels in postcolonial times, when the Atlantic truly became the world's major crossroads and dominant economy.

Autorentext

José C. Moya is a professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Emeritus Professor at UCLA. He has taught or lectured in a score of universities worldwide and authored over fifty publications on migrations, labor, anarchism, and global history, translated into eight languages.

Inhalt

Part 1: The Longue Durée 1. The Making and Remaking of the Atlantic World, 1400-2020 Part 2: Mass Crossings, 1800-1930 2. The African Presence in Brazil 3. Fighting Someone Else's Wars? Italian and Irish Soldiers, Adventurers and Mercenaries in the New World, 1776-1876 4. Polish and Ukrainian Transatlantic Nationalisms, 1860-1940 5. Forging Basque and Catalan Nationalism in the New World 6. Transatlantic Religion: German Lutheran Missionaries in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930 7. Migrants between Two Empires: Spanish day laborers in Cuba and Algeria, 1890-1900 Part 3: Transatlantic Politics, 1920s-1940s 8. Fascism and Anti-Fascism among Italians in Argentina and the US 9. Salazarism and Anti-Salazarism among Portuguese Immigrants in Brazil & the US, 1930-1950 10 The Spanish Falange in Mexico, 1937-1942 11. For a New Cuba and a New Spain: Popular Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War Part 4: The Revival of Mass Crossings, 1950-2020 12. Colonial and Postcolonial Transatlantic Migrations in the British, Dutch, and French Caribbean 13. Transatlantic Loyalties towards the Family through Labor, Care and the Nation: A Cape Verdean Perspective 14. Chilean and Sahrawi Exiles: Contesting Colonial Legacies and Constructing Political Projects in Cold War and Post-Colonial Worlds 15. From Receiver to Sender: The Argentine Diaspora in Europe and the Americas