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 to Entangled Empires challenge 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, converso traders,
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 in Entangled Empires
seek 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 Empires
emphasizes 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. Contributors: Ernesto 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.
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