Lina del Castillo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226422787
- eISBN:
- 9780226422817
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226422817.003.0004
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cartography
During the Age of Revolutions, print cartography played a critical role in the invention of imaginable, independent republican spaces. This chapter traces out the circumstances behind the ideation, ...
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During the Age of Revolutions, print cartography played a critical role in the invention of imaginable, independent republican spaces. This chapter traces out the circumstances behind the ideation, creation, and circulation of two distinct yet interconnected cartographic "Colombias." Each was a product of divergent transatlantic social and political networks, yet both were dedicated to the independence of Spanish America. The first Colombia, printed in London in 1807, encompassed all of South America, reflecting the grand plans Francisco de Miranda envisioned for the continent on the eve of Napoleon's invasion of Iberia. The second, produced in Paris in 1827 and attributed to José Manuel Restrepo, projected the grand history of the independence wars fought and decisively won by Simón Bolívar for the Colombian Republic. To best understand the historical context and meaning of the two printed maps, we must situate them within the fast-paced geopolitical changes that occurred in the early nineteenth century as the Spanish Atlantic monarchy began to dissolve. These little-known, understudied maps offer a visual archive of information that helps us better see the grand imperial designs and republican territorial desires that sprung from the Spanish imperial crisis and just how contingent those purportedly permanent visions actually were.Less
During the Age of Revolutions, print cartography played a critical role in the invention of imaginable, independent republican spaces. This chapter traces out the circumstances behind the ideation, creation, and circulation of two distinct yet interconnected cartographic "Colombias." Each was a product of divergent transatlantic social and political networks, yet both were dedicated to the independence of Spanish America. The first Colombia, printed in London in 1807, encompassed all of South America, reflecting the grand plans Francisco de Miranda envisioned for the continent on the eve of Napoleon's invasion of Iberia. The second, produced in Paris in 1827 and attributed to José Manuel Restrepo, projected the grand history of the independence wars fought and decisively won by Simón Bolívar for the Colombian Republic. To best understand the historical context and meaning of the two printed maps, we must situate them within the fast-paced geopolitical changes that occurred in the early nineteenth century as the Spanish Atlantic monarchy began to dissolve. These little-known, understudied maps offer a visual archive of information that helps us better see the grand imperial designs and republican territorial desires that sprung from the Spanish imperial crisis and just how contingent those purportedly permanent visions actually were.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314971
- eISBN:
- 9781846316517
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316517.005
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
In the early years of the nineteenth century, Haiti was being reframed from a sovereign state to an eternal rogue colony. Jean-Jacques Dessalines attempted to strengthen its economy, military, and ...
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In the early years of the nineteenth century, Haiti was being reframed from a sovereign state to an eternal rogue colony. Jean-Jacques Dessalines attempted to strengthen its economy, military, and culture through international trade, demographic development, and publication of state documents. However, the rest of the world increasingly viewed his nation as an inherent subversion of the racialised power hierarchies on which Euro-American prosperity was based, rather than a remarkable innovation and the triumph of right. Dessalines was linked to two anticolonial episodes beyond the borders of Haiti, the first involving Trinidad and the second involving an attempt by Francisco de Miranda to overthrow Spanish colonial control of Venezuela. This chapter examines the Haitian imperialist decolonisation that began in St. Thomas and concluded in Trinidad, looking in particular at Dessalines's anticolonial imperialism in Venezuela and Trinidad, and describing slave narratives associated with him.Less
In the early years of the nineteenth century, Haiti was being reframed from a sovereign state to an eternal rogue colony. Jean-Jacques Dessalines attempted to strengthen its economy, military, and culture through international trade, demographic development, and publication of state documents. However, the rest of the world increasingly viewed his nation as an inherent subversion of the racialised power hierarchies on which Euro-American prosperity was based, rather than a remarkable innovation and the triumph of right. Dessalines was linked to two anticolonial episodes beyond the borders of Haiti, the first involving Trinidad and the second involving an attempt by Francisco de Miranda to overthrow Spanish colonial control of Venezuela. This chapter examines the Haitian imperialist decolonisation that began in St. Thomas and concluded in Trinidad, looking in particular at Dessalines's anticolonial imperialism in Venezuela and Trinidad, and describing slave narratives associated with him.
Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638680
- eISBN:
- 9780748651702
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638680.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as ‘South American mad’. As Spain's hold on its colonies progressively weakened during the late eighteenth and early ...
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Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as ‘South American mad’. As Spain's hold on its colonies progressively weakened during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, thousands of British scientists, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and settlers rushed to take advantage of the enticing opportunities Spanish America offered. Britain's fascination with the region displayed itself in poems, plays, operas, political tracts, news reportage, travel narratives, and stock market quotations. Creole patriots such as Francisco de Miranda and Andrés Bello gathered in London to solicit aid for their revolutions while ministers debated tactics for liberating both the peoples and the untapped wealth of Spain's colonies. Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known Romantic texts, from Helen Maria Williams' Peru to Samuel Rogers' The Voyage of Columbus and Byron's The Age of Bronze, this book reveals the untold story of Romantic-era Britain's Spanish American obsession. Although historians have traditionally characterized Britain's relationship with Spanish America as commercial rather than colonial, the book explores the significant rhetorical overlap between formal and informal strategies of rule. In the absence of a coherent imperial policy regarding Spain's colonies, Britain struggled to justify its actions by means of the problematic assertion that British primacy was authorized by a political, cultural, ethical and even historical identification with the peoples of Spanish America. By examining the ways in which this discourse of British-Spanish American similitude was deployed and increasingly strained throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the book demonstrates that British writing about Spanish America redefines the anxieties, ambivalences and contradictions that characterize Romantic Imperialism.Less
Robert Southey did not exaggerate when he described the England of his day as ‘South American mad’. As Spain's hold on its colonies progressively weakened during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, thousands of British scientists, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and settlers rushed to take advantage of the enticing opportunities Spanish America offered. Britain's fascination with the region displayed itself in poems, plays, operas, political tracts, news reportage, travel narratives, and stock market quotations. Creole patriots such as Francisco de Miranda and Andrés Bello gathered in London to solicit aid for their revolutions while ministers debated tactics for liberating both the peoples and the untapped wealth of Spain's colonies. Through critical reconsiderations of both canonical and lesser-known Romantic texts, from Helen Maria Williams' Peru to Samuel Rogers' The Voyage of Columbus and Byron's The Age of Bronze, this book reveals the untold story of Romantic-era Britain's Spanish American obsession. Although historians have traditionally characterized Britain's relationship with Spanish America as commercial rather than colonial, the book explores the significant rhetorical overlap between formal and informal strategies of rule. In the absence of a coherent imperial policy regarding Spain's colonies, Britain struggled to justify its actions by means of the problematic assertion that British primacy was authorized by a political, cultural, ethical and even historical identification with the peoples of Spanish America. By examining the ways in which this discourse of British-Spanish American similitude was deployed and increasingly strained throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the book demonstrates that British writing about Spanish America redefines the anxieties, ambivalences and contradictions that characterize Romantic Imperialism.
