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A Case of Multiple Identities in La Florida: A Statistical Approach to Nascent Cosmopolitanism

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Within the study of modern cosmopolitanism is the concept that people can have multiple citizenships created through overlapping identities. While this idea of cosmopolitanism differs from Kant’s one-world law, it creates situations where cosmopolitan ideas or nascent cosmopolitanism exist as a result of these multiple identities. Through connections developed from the importation of various goods, such as ceramics, ideas of taste are expanded, which provides opportunities and intensification of access to the global economy for a contested periphery. This article will combine historical and archaeological data to demonstrate the possibility of nascent cosmopolitanism within La Florida at the end of the of the first Spanish period in the 18th century.

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Hughes, D. A Case of Multiple Identities in La Florida: A Statistical Approach to Nascent Cosmopolitanism. Hist Arch 46, 8–27 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376857

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