Recent historical literature has incorporated the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas into discussions about the age of revolutions (1750-1850). Previous scholarship, as pioneered by R. R. Palmer, considered the independence movements of the early 19th century that emancipated Latin America as an epiphenomenon of the truly revolutionary events of 1776 in North America and 1789 in France. Since its original formulation, this view has been challenged as scholars increasingly recognise that the Iberian empires were as integrated into European and global circuits of economic exchange and political connections as were the Dutch, British, or French empires. This workshop will bring together researchers working on the Iberian worlds in the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific to reassess the changes and continuities in this crucial period of social transformation.
Welcome and Introductions (9.30am-9.45am)
Session 1 (9.45-11.15). Chair: Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
Marília Moreira (University of London), ‘Revolutionary Warfare and Global Competition for the South Atlantic: The Role of Antoine René Larcher in the Bahian Conspiracy (1798)’
Juan José Rivas-Moreno (UCL), ‘Change and Continuity in the Financing of the Pacific Trade, 1780-1840’
Break (11.15am-11.45am)
Session 2 (11.45am-1.15pm). Chair: Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui (University of Oxford)
Ángela Pérez-Villa (Western Michigan University), ‘Slavery and Legal Culture in Colombia and Spanish America, c. 1780-1830’
Ruth de Llobet (New York University in Shanghai), ‘Spanish Filipinos in Spain’s Constitutional Assembly (1810-1814): Trade and Politics in a Hispanic Border in Southeast Asia’
Lunch Break (1.15pm.-2.45pm)
Session 3 (2.45pm-3.30pm). Chair: Tom Cutterham (University of Birmingham)
Juan Neves-Sarriegui (University of Oxford), ‘The 1821 Revolution in Portuguese Goa: Popular Constitutionalism and Public Communications in the Age of Revolutions’
General Discussion (3.30pm-4.00pm). Chair: Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui
Break (4.00pm-5.00pm)
Keynote Lecture (5.00pm-6.30pm). Chair: Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui
Alan Knight (University of Oxford), ‘Latin America in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850’
