A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks - Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil

Informationen zum Autor Laura Jarnagin is associate professor and director, Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines. Klappentext Demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship! business! and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a century and a half and eventually converged to promote! and facilitate the migration of southern elites to Brazil in the post-Civil War era. Placing that migration in the context of the Atlantic world sharpens our understanding of the transborder dynamic of such mainstream nineteenth-century historical currents as international commerce! liberalism! Protestantism! and Freemasonry. Zusammenfassung "A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites! Capitalism! and Confederate Migration to Brazil" is a study in Atlantic world history that examines the qualitative nature of capitalism's processes through the lens of social networks.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Jarnagin, Laura Jarnigan, Laura Jarnagin Pang
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780817357788
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5778-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Atlantic Crossings; Atlantic Crossings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous