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The Leviathan Drives the Plot

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dc.contributor.authorVieira, Nina
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Patrícia
dc.contributor.authorBrito, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorVieira, Carla Cristina da Costa
dc.contributor.institutionCHAM - Centro de Humanidades
dc.contributor.institutionDepartamento de História (DH)
dc.contributor.pblMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-01T15:24:01Z
dc.date.available2026-09-01T15:24:01Z
dc.date.issued2026-08-01
dc.descriptionUID/04666/2025 https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04666/2025
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the voyage of the Leviathan, a brigantine that sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, in 1773, in search of new sperm whale grounds in the South Atlantic but ended its journey off the coast of Brazil. There, its crew was arrested and persuaded to teach sperm-whaling techniques under Portuguese colonial authorities. Bringing together the trajectories of a Jewish merchant, a New England captain, a Portuguese viceroy, and sperm whales themselves, the voyage marked the beginning of sperm whale hunting in Brazilian waters. At the same time, it triggered an unplanned process of technological and environmental knowledge transfer across imperial borders. Drawing on Environmental History, Blue Humanities, and Atlantic Studies, the article argues that the Leviathan functioned as both a borderscape and as a boundary-crossing device, linking human and nonhuman actors across political, ecological, social, and oceanic frontiers. By reconstructing this incidental voyage through a connected and more-than-human perspective, the article proposes a transdisciplinary approach to the writing of Early Modern Atlantic history.en
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dc.description.versionpublished
dc.format.extent17
dc.format.extent3978473
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/histories6030046
dc.identifier.issn2409-9252
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 170249368
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dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7895-0784/work/225505344
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dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1967-1475/work/225505736
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/205950
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/6/3/46
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/Avaliação UID 2023%2F2024/UID%2F04666%2F2025/PT
dc.subjectSperm whales
dc.subjectNonhuman agency
dc.subjectKnowledge transfer
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectOcean history
dc.subjectAtlantic studies
dc.subjectBorderscapes
dc.subjectEnvironmental history
dc.subjectBlue humanities
dc.titleThe Leviathan Drives the Ploten
dc.title.subtitleAn Atlantic Whaling Voyage as a Case of Multiple Agencies in the Writing of Historical Narrativesen
dc.typejournal article
degois.publication.firstPage1
degois.publication.issue3
degois.publication.lastPage17
degois.publication.titleHistories
degois.publication.volume6
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person.affiliation.nameCHAM - Centro de Humanidades
person.familyNameVieira
person.givenNameCarla Cristina da Costa
person.identifier.ciencia-idE619-F623-F58A
person.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7632-3776
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