1st Edition

Spain and the American Revolution New Approaches and Perspectives

Edited By Gabriel Paquette, Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia Copyright 2020
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

Though the participation of France in the American Revolution is well established in the historiography, the role of Spain, France’s ally, is relatively understudied and underappreciated. Spain's involvement in the conflict formed part of a global struggle between empires and directly influenced the outcome of the clash between Britain and its North American colonists. Following the establishment... Read more

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

 

Gabriel Paquette and Gonzalo Quintero Saravia

Introduction: Spain and the American Revolution

 

Anthony McFarlane

The American Revolution and Spanish America, 1776-1814

 

Larrie D. Ferreiro

The Rise and Fall of the Spanish-French Bourbon Armada, from Toulon to Pensacola to Trafalgar

 

María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés

José’s Secrets: Minister Gálvez’s Master Plan for Spain’s Participation in the American Revolution

 

Manuel Lucena-Giraldo

"Foreseeing what great occasions might come": American Independence and Spanish Naval Reformers

 

Emily Berquist Soule

The Spanish Slave Trade during the American Revolutionary War

 

 

John W. Nelson

Spain's Bid for the American Interior? The Imperial Contest over the Revolutionary Great Lakes

 

Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant

Spain and the American Revolution: A Pacific Perspective

 

Benjamin C. Lyons

Law in Early Modern Diplomacy: The Jay-Floridablanca Negotiations of 1780

 

Mary-Jo Kline

Sarah Livingston Jay (1756-1802): A Republican Lady in Spain

 

Ross Michael Nedervelt

Securing the Borderlands/seas in the American Revolution: The Spanish-American Alliance and Regional Security against the British Empire

 

Gregg French

Spain and the Birth of the America Republic: Establishing Lasting Bonds of Kinship in the Revolutionary Era

 

Eric Becerra

A New Guardian: The Values of the American Revolution in Post-Revolutionary Spanish Louisiana Settlements

 

Eduardo Posada-Carbó

Spanish America and US Constitutionalism in the Age of Revolution

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Gabriel Paquette is Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Oregon. He was Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London in 2017–2018.

Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, a senior Spanish diplomat, is author of Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, which recently won the Society for Military History’s Best Book Prize.

"This well-crafted collection of essays promises to refocus scholarly attention on the crucial monetary and military assistance that Spain provided the revolutionaries in the War of the American Revolution. This book will undoubtedly stimulate further research on this important topic, and the volume will be of interest to students and specialists of Latin American, early U.S., and Atlantic World history." - Kenneth J. Andrien, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair, Southern Methodist University