The seventeenth-century Spanish Caribbean as global crossroads: transimperial and transregional approaches (original) (raw)
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The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century
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New directions in the political history of the Spanish-Atlantic world, c. 1750–1850
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This special dossier of JILAS brings together nine essays that shed new light on several important aspects of the political history of the Spanish-Atlantic world c. 1750-1850. 1 As specialists will be well aware, this century, spanning roughly from the Seven Years' War until Spain's African War, has been the subject of renewed historical interest. Undoubtedly, the acute crises facing democracies and republics on both sides of the Atlantic, together with the vicissitudes of citizenship and political participation, have stimulated historians to search for the origins of contemporary political systems. Some themes and topics have been utterly transformed by a new generation of scholarswriting in several European languagesoften working in transnational, global, and Atlantic frameworks scarcely imaginable a few decades ago. Though the advances in the historiography have been formidable, many topics and themes remain either underresearched or else new work has provoked fresh questions requiring more research. This dossier therefore aims to pursue new directions as well as to push historiographical advances still further, helping to consolidate gains already made One of the notable shifts of the past few decades has been the steady narrowing of the gulf that previously separated these scholarly communities working in different locations and languages from one another. The structural factors producing this change are numerous, but some of it may be attributed to European Union-driven academic internationalization, the annihilation of barriers to scholarly exchange by the Internet, and the migration and movement of scholarly communities. The proliferation and deepening of networks has occurred not only within Europe, but also beyond it. One of the most visible changes of recent decades has been the intensification of interactions between the scholars in Europe and those based in the Americas, particularly Latin America. Emphasis on structural and material forces, however, should not distract attention from intellectual developments. The rise of Atlantic History in the immediate post-World War II period, building on Braudel's insights about Mediterranean civilization, promoted a focus on connections and convergences, inching ever closer to a post-national, cosmopolitan approach to the past. The 1960s were a key moment in a renewed interaction between scholars both from both of the Americas, North and South (Tirado 2014). In the Anglophone world, this orientation toward histoire croisée, served as an impetus for myriad groundbreaking books on the early CONTACT Gabriel Paquette
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Slave transshipment and resale routes within the Spanish Caribbean were a fundamental part of the Atlantic slave trade. Enslaved Africans brought to the region during the late XVI and first half of the XVII century were forcibly made to traverse multiple circum-Caribbean points throughout their lives in a continuous process of de-racination, re-commodification, and forced mobility. Maritime regional slave routes linked seemingly marginal locations in the Caribbean like Cumaná, Margarita, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, or Trujillo with wider regional flows of peoples, capital, and commodities, as well as with the circulation in the larger Atlantic. Veracruz and Cartagena each served as an axis for these regional slave transshipment and resale routes, while Havana and Cartagena both functioned as re-shipment springboards for Veracruz. Las rutas de trasbordo y reventa de esclavos en el Caribe español fueron parte fundamental del tráfico esclavista trasatlántico. Los africanos esclavizados que fueron traídos a la región durante las últimas décadas del siglo XVI y la primera mitad del siglo XVII fueron obligados a recorrer múltiples localidades del circum-Caribe a través de sus vidas, en un proceso continuo de desarraigo, re-comodificación y movilidad forzada. Las rutas marí-timas regionales del tráfico esclavista vincularon localidades consideradas marginales en el Caribe como Cumaná, Margarita, Puerto Rico, Jamaica o Trujillo con los flujos regionales más amplios de gentes, capitales y productos, así como con la circulación atlántica. Veracruz y Cartagena funcionaron como ejes en estas rutas regionales de trasbordo y reventa, mientras que Habana y Cartagena servían como plataformas de trasbordo hacia Veracruz.