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

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According to conventional wisdom, in the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal served as a model to the English for how to go about establishing colonies in the New World and Africa. By the eighteenth century, however, it was Spain and Portugal that aspired to imitate the British. Editor Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and the contributors toEntangled Empireschallenge these long-standing assumptions, exploring how Spain, Britain, and Portugal shaped one another throughout the entire period, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. They argue that these empires were interconnected from the very outset in their production and sharing of knowledge as well as in their economic activities. Willingly or unwillingly, African slaves, Amerindians,conversotraders, smugglers, missionaries, diplomats, settlers, soldiers, and pirates crossed geographical, linguistic, and political boundaries and cocreated not only local but also imperial histories. Contributors reveal that entanglement was not merely a process that influenced events in the colonies after their founding; it was constitutive of European empire from the beginning. The essays inEntangled Empiresseek to clarify the processes that rendered the intertwined histories of these colonial worlds invisible, including practices of archival erasure as well as selective memorialization. Bringing together a large geography and chronology,Entangled Empiresemphasizes the importance of understanding connections, both intellectual and practical, between the English and Iberian imperial projects. The colonial history of the United States ought to be considered part of the history of colonial Latino-America just as Latin-American history should be understood as fundamental to the formation of the United States. ContributorsErnesto Bassi, Benjamin Breen, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Bradley Dixon, Kristie Flannery, Eliga Gould, Michael Guasco, April Hatfield, Christopher Heaney, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Mark Sheaves, Holly Snyder, Cameron Strang. Introduction • 1 • Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra PART I. SEVERED HISTORIES • 17 Chapter 1. The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic as a Hemispheric System? English Merchants Navigating the Iberian Atlantic • 19 • Mark Sheaves Chapter 2. Agents of Empire: Africans and the Origins of English Colonialism in the Americas • 42 • Michael Guasco Chapter 3. Empires on Drugs: Pharmaceutical Go-Betweens and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance • 63 • Benjamin Breen PART II. BROKERS AND TRANSLATORS • 83 Chapter 4. Marrying Utopia: Mary and Philip, Richard Eden, and the English Alchemy of Spanish Peru • 85 • Christopher Heaney Chapter 5. The Pegs of a Wider Frame: Jewish Merchants in Anglo-Iberian Trade • 105 • Holly Snyder Chapter 6. Entangled Irishman: George Dawson Flinter and Anglo-Spanish Imperial Rivalry • 124 • Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Chapter 7. Planters and Powerbrokers: George J. F. Clarke, Interracial Love, and Allegiance in the Revolutionary Circum- Caribbean • 142 • Cameron B. Strang PART III. POSSESSION, SOVEREIGNTY, AND LEGITIMACY • 159 Chapter 8. The “Iberian” Justifications of Territorial Possession by Pilgrims and Puritans in the Colonization of America • 161 • Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Chapter 9. “As the Spaniards Always Have Done”: The Legacy of Florida’s Missions for Carolina Indian Relations and the Origins of the Yamasee War • 178 • Bradley Dixon PART IV. TRADE AND WAR • 195 Chapter 10. Reluctant Petitioners: English Officials and the Spanish Caribbean • 197 • April Lee Hatfield Chapter 11. Enabling, Implementing, Experiencing Entanglement: Empires, Sailors, and Coastal Peoples in the British-Spanish Caribbean • 217 • Ernesto Bassi Chapter 12. The Seven Years’ War and the Globalization of Anglo-Iberian Imperial Entanglement: The View from Manila • 236 • Kristie Patricia Flannery Afterword • 255 • Eliga H. Gould Notes • 259 List of Contributors • 321 Index • 323 Acknowledgments • 331