Claiming Land, Claiming Water

23jun12:00 pm1:30 pmClaiming Land, Claiming WaterFree

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June Fireside Chat

Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People who Crossed them in the Early Modern Atlantic

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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026, at 12:00 PM EST

Please join us on June 23rd at 12:00 pm EST for a Fireside Chat discussion with the authors and co-editors of Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic. (Penn Press, 2026)

Rachel Herrmann will discuss with her co-editors the rationale for the creation of the network of scholars that gave rise to this volume, including immigration restrictions in the UK’s “hostile environment.” She will then turn from a contemporary discussion of borders to a short overview of her chapter on the commonly misunderstood economic policy of comercio libre in the Gulf South, and how it affected the Indigenous peoples interested in trading deerskins with the Spanish.

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June 23, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm(GMT-04:00)