Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s (Atlantic Crossings) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817317767 ISBN 13: 9780817317768

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2013

Synopsis

Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.

 

In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections after Colonialism, edited by Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette, builds upon recent advances in the history of colonialism and imperialism by studying former colonies and metropoles through the same analytical lens, as part of an attempt to understand the complex connections--political, economic, intellectual, and cultural--between Europe and Latin America that survived the demise of empire.

 

Historians are increasingly aware of the persistence of robust links between Europe and the new Latin American nations. This book focuses on connections both during the events culminating with independence and in subsequent years, a period strangely neglected in European and Latin American scholarship. Bringing together distinguished historians of both Europe and America, the volume reveals a new cast of characters and relationships ranging from unrepentant American monarchists, compromise seeking liberals in Lisbon and Madrid who envisioned transatlantic federations, and British merchants in the River Plate who saw opportunity where others saw risk to public moralists whose audiences spanned from Paris to Santiago de Chile and plantation owners in eastern Cuba who feared that slave rebellions elsewhere in the Caribbean would spread to their island.

 

Contributors
Matthew Brown / Will Fowler / Josep M.
Fradera / Carrie Gibson / Brian Hamnett /
Maurizio Isabella / Iona Macintyre / Scarlett
O'Phelan Godoy / Gabriel Paquette / David
Rock / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara / Jay
Sexton / Reuben Zahler

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Brown is a Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol. He is writing a short history of Latin America's relationship with global empires since Independence.

Gabriel Paquette is an Assistant Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. He was previously a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer at Harvard University. He is the author of Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and Its Empire, 1759-1808 and the editor of Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and Its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817317767
• ISBN 13: 9780817317768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Brown Matthew, Paquette Gabriel