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These papers explore the history of the tropical regions of the Atlantic basin, sometimes focused on the Caribbean, sometimes on Africa, but always with a comparative dimension. The Atlantic basin is central to most of these comparisons, but they are a part of an even broader effort to capture the perspective of world history. Some deal with the sh.

This essay points to residential location as an important source of group interest, alongside
the more familiar factors of race, class, and gender. This group interest is especially
strong among people living in or dependent upon a particular city. This phenomenon
is illustrated here through a variant of central-place theory applied to the history of
South Africa and the Argentine pampa from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth
century, with particular attention to the play of rivalries between cities and conflict
between cities and their hinterlands.