Autorentext

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (2016).

Klappentext

This book brings the latest research and evolving historiographical developments on the Hispanic Atlantic world to a student audience. It highlights how the histories of diverse groups of individuals under Spanish rule were integral to Atlantic developments and dynamics.

The Hispanic Atlantic was a profoundly interconnected and dynamic region whose history is central to understanding the broader Atlantic and the early modern world. Traditional histories of the Atlantic often marginalize the Hispanic sphere, while those focusing on Colonial Latin America can downplay the region's connections to, and interactions with, the wider world. Examining the region's past from a broad range of perspectives provides deeper appreciation of its complexity. Topics covered range from imperial governance to Catholic practices and institutions; the importance of contraband and smuggling; the impact of Atlantic dynamics on Indigenous people and children; the challenges of studying the African diaspora; the ambivalence and contradictions inherent in hybrid cultures; the importance of transoceanic circulation of knowledge and plants; and new approaches to the collapse of Spain's Atlantic empire and the abolition of slavery in the Spanish Caribbean.

This engaging volume will be an exciting addition to advanced undergraduate courses on Atlantic, Global, or Latin American History.

Inhalt

Introduction: New Directions in Hispanic Atlantic History 1. Spanish Atlantic Governance: From Empire towards State, 1492-1826 2. The Atlantic Dimension of the Catholic Church in Spanish America 3. Contraband Trade in the Hispanic Atlantic World 4. Indigenous Americans and the Hispanic Atlantic 5. Children in the Hispanic Atlantic 6. The African Diaspora: Knowledge and Movement beyond the Middle Passage 7. Happy Mixtures?: Festivals, Hybridity, and Colonial Latin American Baroque Culture 8. Between Two Oceans: The San Pedro de Alcántara and the Transoceanic Circulation of Plant Treasures (1786) 9. Hispanic Revolutions 10. The Politics of Postponement: Slavery, Slave Trade and Abolitionism in the Spanish Caribbean