Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond, London, 13.12.2019 – 14.12.2019.
For over a century, scholars have wrestled with how to imagine, explain, and convey geographical space. From Frederick Jackson Turner’s chronologically shifting frontier to Fernand Braudel’s integrated Mediterranean basin, from concepts of an ‘Atlantic’ world to arguments for an enduring ‘Red’ North American continent, scholars have offered various models for understanding the interrelationship between space… Read More Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond, London, 13.12.2019 – 14.12.2019.