英国加勒比海的风成地理、日常生活和帝国建设

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Mary S. Draper
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日常风的知识——来自于在17世纪英国加勒比海地区的长期居住。随着殖民者收集、记录和部署有关微风、风和大风的知识,他们了解了加勒比地区独特的风成地理。在这个海洋空间里,风扭曲了距离。朝一个方向航行比朝另一个方向航行要花更长的时间。这篇文章描绘了殖民者如何逐渐适应他们的经济、社会和物质世界来适应风的节奏。他们逐渐意识到,风决定了航行时间、旅行路线、商业计划,并告诉了殖民者如何以及在哪里建造建筑,尤其是防御工事。然而,伦敦的官员花了更长的时间才认识到风对日常生活的影响——以及加勒比海地区的地理位置。加勒比地区缺乏生活经验,最初阻碍了大都市了解该地区气候现实的努力。在整个17世纪末和18世纪,通过与岛上居民的持续通信,大都会官员了解到风成学知识对海事事务的重要性。随着这些知识在信件、报告和地图上的传播,这些知识对大英帝国的商业和军事成功至关重要,尤其是在18世纪大英帝国扩张的过程中。
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Aeolian Geographies, Daily Life, and Empire Building in the English Caribbean
abstract:Knowledge of daily winds—gained from prolonged residence in the region—shaped life in the seventeenth-century English Caribbean. As colonists gathered, recorded, and deployed knowledge about breezes, winds, and gales, they learned the peculiar aeolian geographies of the Caribbean. In this maritime space, wind distorted distance. It took longer to sail one direction than the other. This article charts how colonists gradually adapted their economic, social, and material worlds to the rhythms of the winds. They came to realize that winds dictated sailing times, routed travel, scheduled commerce, and informed how and where colonists built structures, especially fortifications. It took even longer, though, for officials in London to grasp winds' power over daily life in—and the geography of—the Caribbean. Lack of lived experience in the Caribbean initially stymied metropolitan efforts to understand the region's climatic realities. Through continued correspondence with island residents throughout the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, metropolitan officials learned the importance of aeolian knowledge to maritime affairs. As it circulated in letters, reports, and maps, this knowledge became crucial to the commercial and military success of the British Empire, especially as that empire expanded in the eighteenth century.
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