Call for Papers - Historia, Ciencia y Naturaleza en el Comercio Atlántico | FECHA EXTENDIDA

Courtesy: John Carter Brown Library - Brown University

Call for Papers - History, Science and Nature in the Atlantic Trade

This themed issue seeks to bring together works that analyze the dynamics and agents of Atlantic spaces—in particular, the relationships between trade and exchange. The flow of people, ideas, objects, pathogens, animals and plants between the Americas, Africa, and Europe from the beginning of the modern era transformed not only the biota of the connected territories but also the landscapes themselves, including climate as well as conceptions of power and natural and constructed spatialities. The Atlantic trade developed and transformed in parallel with the natural and human dynamics, marked by a latent tension between the elements of tradition and modernity, influenced by the new political, economic, cultural and scientific sociabilities. Among the possible topics and approaches we highlight: the construction of commercial networks (political, economic and scientific); the connection between the transatlantic slave trade and the transformation of nature in Africa and the Americas; trade in agricultural products—the plantation economy and transformation of local ecosystems; the trade in medicinal plants—routes and extractivism; the timber trade and deforestation; the trade in luxury goods (parrots, monkeys, orchids, cacti, among others); commercial networks and religious orders—the circulation of natural products; the coasts and hinterlands—internal dynamics in connection with Atlantic commercial networks.

Publishers:

Angela Salgueiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Irina Podgorny (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Judith Carney (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Lorelai B. Kury (Fiocruz/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

Deadline for submission extended:
December 30, 2019