The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections.

"Fay and von Morzé's perspective-changing collection explains how larger sociospatial forces shape cities and their inhabitants. This edition presents a new direction for urban, Atlantic, and cultural studies to reveal an exciting interdisciplinary panorama." - Stephen Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Autorentext
Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Jorge Correia, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal Lindsay DiCuirci, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Michael Drexler, Bucknell University, USA Elizabeth A. Fay, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Bonny Ibhawoh. McMaster University, Canada Keith Mason,University of Liverpool, UK Paul Niell, Florida State University, UK Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia, Canada Karin Vélez History at Macalester College, USA Leonard von Morzé, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Cynthia Schoolar, Tufts University, USA David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Inhalt
PART I: SPATIAL PROJECTIONS OF POWER 1. Atlantic Urban Transfers in Early Modernity: Mazagão from Africa to the Americas; Jorge Correia 2. From Colonial Subjectivity to 'Enlightened' Selfhood: The Spatial Rhetoric of the Plaza de Armas of Havana, Cuba, 1771-1828; Paul Niell 3. Urban Driftwood: Mobile Catholic Markers and the Extension of the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic Public Sphere; Karin Vélez PART II: THE SITE OF REFORM 4. The Plymouth Rock of Old England?: James Cropper, Atlantic Anti-Slavery, and Liverpool's Civic Identity; Keith Mason 5. Romancing Post-Napoleonic Britain: The Metrical Tale and The Fabulation of Simón Bolívar; Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge 6. Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Making of an Indigenous Intelligentsia: African Lawyers in Colonial Urban Lagos; Bonny Ibhawoh Part III: IDENTITY AND IMAGINATIVE HISTORY 7. Leonora Sansay's Anatopic Imagination; Michael Drexler 8. Transatlantic Loops and Urban Anonymity in Mary Shelley's Lodore; Cynthia S. Williams 9.The Spanish Archive and the Remapping of U.S. History in Washington Irving's Columbus; Lindsay DiCuirci Section IV: Cultures of Performance 10. Meere Strangers: Indigenous and Urban Performances in Algonquian London, 1580-1630; Coll Thrush 11. Theater in the Combat Zone: Military Theatricals at Philadelphia, 1778; David Worrall