Urban Identity And The Atlantic World

The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere and a transnational urban imaginary, influencing national and international cultural and political intersections and innovations. The contributors in Urban Identity and the Atlantic World explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness was integrated into the more cosmopolitan and transnational creation of an Atlantic public sphere.

Wide-ranging, this volume brings together research using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches from social history to literary studies, and from indigenous studies and Africana studies to theatre history. Review: Fay and von Morze'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