Spain and the American Revolution

Though the participation of France in the American Revolution is well established in the historiography, the role of Spain, France's ally, is relatively understudied and underappreciated. Spain's involvement in the conflict formed part of a global struggle between empires and directly influenced the outcome of the clash between Britain and its North American colonists. Following the establishment of American independence, the Spanish empire became one of the nascent republic's most significant neighbors and, often illicitly, trading partners. Bringing together essays from a range of well-regarded historians, this volume contributes significantly to the international history of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.

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Gabriel Paquette is Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Oregon. He was Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King's College London in 2017-2018.

Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, a senior Spanish diplomat, is author of Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, which recently won the Society for Military History's Best Book Prize.

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Contributor Biographies

Gabriel Paquette and Gonzalo Quintero Saravia Introduction: Spain and the American Revolution

Anthony McFarlane The American Revolution and Spanish America, 1776-1814

Larrie D. Ferreiro The Rise and Fall of the Spanish-French Bourbon Armada, from Toulon to Pensacola to Trafalgar

María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés José's Secrets: Minister Gálvez's Master Plan for Spain's Participation in the American Revolution

Manuel Lucena-Giraldo "Foreseeing what great occasions might come": American Independence and Spanish Naval Reformers

Emily Berquist Soule The Spanish Slave Trade during the American Revolutionary War

John W. Nelson Spain's Bid for the American Interior? The Imperial Contest over the Revolutionary Great Lakes

Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant Spain and the American Revolution: A Pacific Perspective

Benjamin C. Lyons Law in Early Modern Diplomacy: The Jay-Floridablanca Negotiations of 1780

Mary-Jo Kline Sarah Livingston Jay (1756-1802): A Republican Lady in Spain

Ross Michael Nedervelt Securing the Borderlands/seas in the American Revolution: The Spanish-American Alliance and Regional Security against the British Empire

Gregg French Spain and the Birth of the America Republic: Establishing Lasting Bonds of Kinship in the Revolutionary Era

Eric Becerra A New Guardian: The Values of the American Revolution in Post-Revolutionary Spanish Louisiana Settlements

Eduardo Posada-Carbó Spanish America and US Constitutionalism in the Age of Revolution

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