The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

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• María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University)
• Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00
• The Theatre, Peterhouse.

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Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

The early modern Caribbean can come across as a fractured region whose political history conspired against the cohesion nature conferred upon it. And yet, it shared a maritime culture that transcended political boundaries and unified the region in unexpected ways. This talk proposes nautical technologies-in-use and their supporting infrastructures as functional relations that contributed to this maritime culture and also reordered the region for its inhabitants. It will consider as examples pre-Columbian nautical technology, the consolidation of a maritime culture within trans-Caribbean smuggling and piratical operations, and the technological infrastructure that supported the kinetic Caribbean.

This talk is part of the Rausing Lecture series.

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