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North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945

North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945 Michel-Rolph Trouillot thought. I insist on modernity as revisited from the Caribbean historical experience to highlight the problematic character of .1 As couched here, the first moment of globality, the Atlantic moment, encompasses five centuries of world history and the shrinking of huge continental masses, including Asia. The designation does not refer to a static space but to the locus of a momentum. The global flows of that era were not restricted geographically to societies bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Spain’s conquest of the Philippines, the British conquest of India, and U.S. control of Korea all pertain to this moment. It is no accident that such non-Atlantic ventures often took place when the power that launched them claimed partial or total control of the Atlantic Ocean. In short, it is the continuous centrality of the Atlantic as the revolving door of major global flows over four centuries that allows us to speak of a single moment. Our contemporary arrogance overplays the uniqueness of our times, and may blind us to the dimensions of what happened before we were born. It may therefore be useful to document the density, the speed, and the impact of the global flows that made http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press

North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945

South Atlantic Quarterly , Volume 101 (4) – Oct 1, 2002

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press
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0038-2876
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1527-8026
DOI
10.1215/00382876-101-4-839
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Abstract

Michel-Rolph Trouillot thought. I insist on modernity as revisited from the Caribbean historical experience to highlight the problematic character of .1 As couched here, the first moment of globality, the Atlantic moment, encompasses five centuries of world history and the shrinking of huge continental masses, including Asia. The designation does not refer to a static space but to the locus of a momentum. The global flows of that era were not restricted geographically to societies bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Spain’s conquest of the Philippines, the British conquest of India, and U.S. control of Korea all pertain to this moment. It is no accident that such non-Atlantic ventures often took place when the power that launched them claimed partial or total control of the Atlantic Ocean. In short, it is the continuous centrality of the Atlantic as the revolving door of major global flows over four centuries that allows us to speak of a single moment. Our contemporary arrogance overplays the uniqueness of our times, and may blind us to the dimensions of what happened before we were born. It may therefore be useful to document the density, the speed, and the impact of the global flows that made

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Published: Oct 1, 2002

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