1st Edition

Atlantic Crossroads Webs of Migration, Culture and Politics between Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1800–2020

Edited By José Moya Copyright 2021
388 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

388 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

388 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Unlike most books on the Atlantic that associate its history with European colonialism and thus end in 1800, this volume demonstrates that the Atlantic connections not only outlasted colonialism, they also reached unprecedented levels in postcolonial times, when the Atlantic truly became the world’s major crossroads and dominant economy. Twice as many Europeans entered New York, Buenos Aires, and... Read more

Part 1: The Longue Durée

1 The Making and Remaking of the Atlantic World, 1400-2020

José C. Moya

Part 2: Mass Crossings, 1800-1930

2 The African Presence in Brazil

João José Reis and Roquinaldo Ferreira

3 Fighting Someone Else’s Wars? Italian and Irish Soldiers, Adventurers and Mercenaries in the New World, 1776-1876

Carmine Pinto and José Brownrigg-Gleeson Mártinez

4 Polish and Ukrainian Transatlantic Nationalisms, 1860-1940

Adam Walaszek and Serge Cipko

5 Forging Basque and Catalan Nationalism in the New World

Oscar Álvarez Gila and Alejandro Fernández

6 Transatlantic Religion: German Lutheran Missionaries in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930

Benjamin Bryce

7 Migrants between Two Empires: Spanish day laborers in Cuba and Algeria, 1890-1900

Jeanne Moisand

Part 3: Transatlantic Politics, 1920s-1940s

8 Fascism and Anti-Fascism among Italians in Argentina and the US

Fraser Ottanelli and Michael Goebel

9 Salazarism and Anti-Salazarism among Portuguese Immigrants in Brazil & the US, 1930-1950

Alberto Pena Rodríguez and Heloisa Paulo

10 The Spanish Falange in Mexico, 1937-1942

Ricardo Pérez Montfort

11 For a New Cuba and a New Spain: Popular Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War

Ariel Mae Lambe

Part 4: The Revival of Mass Crossings, 1950-2020

12 Colonial and Postcolonial Transatlantic Migrations in the British, Dutch, and French Caribbean

Marlou Schrover

13 Transatlantic Loyalties towards the Family through Labor, Care and the Nation: A Cape Verdean Perspective

Heike Drotbohm

14 Chilean and Sahrawi Exiles: Contesting Colonial Legacies and Constructing Political Projects in Cold War and Post-Colonial Worlds

Tara Deubel and Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney

15 From Receiver to Sender: The Argentine Diaspora in Europe and the Americas

Elda González Martínez, Asunción Merino Hernando, and Pablo Yankelevich

Biography

José C. Moya is a professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Emeritus Professor at UCLA. He has taught or lectured in a score of universities worldwide and authored over fifty publications on migrations, labor, anarchism, and global history, translated into eight languages.