A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780817357788)

Examines the qualitative nature of capitalism's processes through the lens of social networks

A Confluence of Transatlantic Network demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a century and a half and eventually converged to engender, promote, and facilitate the migration of southern elites to Brazil in the post-Civil War era. Placing that migration in the context of the Atlantic world sharpens our understanding of the transborder dynamic of such mainstream nineteenth-century historical currents as international commerce, liberalism, Protestantism, and Freemasonry. The manifestation of these transatlantic forces as found in Brazil at midcentury provided disaffected Confederates with a propitious environment in which to try to re-create a cherished lifestyle.

Author: Laura Jarnagin
ISBN-10: 0817357785
ISBN-13: 9780817357788
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d