1st Edition

New Directions in Hispanic Atlantic History

Edited By Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso Copyright 2026
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: New Directions in Hispanic Atlantic History  

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso  

1. Spanish Atlantic Governance: From Empire towards State, 1492–1826  

Christoph Rosenmüller and Marc Eagle  

2. The Atlantic Dimension of the Catholic Church in Spanish America  

María Teresa Álvarez Icaza Longoria  

3. Contraband Trade in the Hispanic Atlantic World  

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso  

4. Indigenous Americans and the Hispanic Atlantic  

Natasha Bailey 

5. Children in the Hispanic Atlantic  

Katherine Godfrey  

6. The African Diaspora: Knowledge and Movement beyond the Middle Passage  

Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera  

7. Happy Mixtures?: Festivals, Hybridity, and Colonial Latin American Baroque Culture  

Miguel A. Valerio  

8. Between Two Oceans: The San Pedro de Alcántara and the Transoceanic Circulation of Plant Treasures (1786)  

Sabrina Guerra Moscoso  

9. Hispanic Revolutions  

Silke Hensel  

10. The Politics of Postponement: Slavery, Slave Trade and Abolitionism in the Spanish Caribbean  

Jesús Sanjurjo

Biography

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).