Atlantic Italies

From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. Read more →

In den 1880er Jahren stieg das Deutsche Reich in das imperiale Rennen um Afrika ein und sicherte sich innert kurzer Zeit grossflächige Territorien südlich der Sahara. Read more →

Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were constantly moving between the United States and British North America and Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice and Trieste. Read more →

The book by Giulia Bonazza offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities—Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno and Genoa—Giulia Bonazza investigates Read more →

by Namia Akhtar (University of Heidelberg)

First published by the Max Weber Stiftung on https://wwc.hypotheses.org/4926

The WeberWorldCafé ‘Transoceanic cultures: The sea in the past and present’ took place on October 28, 2018 at the Karl Jaspers Center of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Read more →

by Eva Dal Canto (text) and Riccardo E. Rossi (images)

First published on H-Soz-Kult

To the conference programme

The numerous entanglements between the Italian-speaking area and the Atlantic world have often been reduced to a handful of isolated “heroic” deeds, fuelling the myth of “Italian” navigators and explorers, rather than being examined as the result of broader connections between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Read more →