Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830

342 Pages·2018·4.45 MB·English

by  Jorge Caanizares-Esguerra

ENTANGLED EMPIRES
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ENTANGLED
EMPIRES
THE ANGLO- IBERIAN ATLANTIC,
1500–1830

EDITED BY
JORGE CAÑIZARES-E SGUERRA
university of pennsylvania press
philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Cañizares- Esguerra, Jorge, editor.
Title: Entangled empires : the Anglo- Iberian Atlantic,
1500–1830 / edited by Jorge Cañizares- Esguerra.
Other titles: Entangled empires (2018)
Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia : University of
Pennsylvania Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017027109 | ISBN 9780812249835
(hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Atlantic Ocean Region— History. | Iberian
Peninsula— History. | Great Britain— Foreign relations—
Spain. | Spain— Foreign relations— Great Britain. |
Great Britain— Foreign relations— Portugal. | Portugal—
Foreign relations— Great Britain. | Civilization, Modern. |
History, Modern.
Classification: LCC D210 .E57 2018 | DDC
303.48/218210903—d c23
LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2017027109
To Christopher Schmidt- Nowara and his generous,
transoceanic life
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contents
Introduction 1
Jorge Cañizares- Esguerra
PART I. SEVERED HISTORIES 17
Chapter 1. The Anglo- Iberian Atlantic as a Hemispheric System? 19
En glish Merchants Navigating the Iberian Atlantic
Mark Sheaves
Chapter 2. Agents of Empire: Africans and the Origins of En glish 42
Colonialism in the Amer i cas
Michael Guasco
Chapter 3. Empires on Drugs: Phar ma ceu ti cal Go- Betweens 63
and the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance
Benjamin Breen
PART II. BROKERS AND TRANSLATORS 83
Chapter 4. Marrying Utopia: Mary and Philip, Richard Eden, 85
and the En glish Alchemy of Spanish Peru
Christopher Heaney
Chapter 5. The Pegs of a Wider Frame: Jewish Merchants 105
in Anglo- Iberian Trade
Holly Snyder
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Chapter 6. Entangled Irishman: George Dawson Flinter 124
and Anglo- Spanish Imperial Rivalry
Christopher Schmidt- Nowara
Chapter 7. Planters and Powerbrokers: George J. F. Clarke, 142
Interracial Love, and Allegiance in the Revolutionary
Circum- Caribbean
Cameron B. Strang
PART III. POSSESSION, SOVEREIGNTY, 159
AND LEGITIMACY
Chapter 8. The “Iberian” Justifications of Territorial Possession 161
by Pilgrims and Puritans in the Colonization of Ameri ca
Jorge Cañizares- Esguerra
Chapter 9. “As the Spaniards Always Have Done”: The Legacy of 178
Florida’s Missions for Carolina Indian Relations and the Origins
of the Yamasee War
Bradley Dixon
PART IV. TRADE AND WAR 195
Chapter 10. Reluctant Petitioners: Eng lish Officials 197
and the Spanish Ca rib be an
April Lee Hatfield
Chapter 11. Enabling, Implementing, Experiencing Entanglement: 217
Empires, Sailors, and Coastal P eoples in the British-Spanish Ca rib be an
Ernesto Bassi
Chapter 12. The Seven Years’ War and the Globalization 236
of Anglo- Iberian Imperial Entanglement: The View from Manila
Kristie Patricia Flannery
Afterword 255
Eliga H. Gould
Contents ix
Notes 259
List of Contributors 321
Index 323
Acknowl edgments 331