Jesse Cromwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 689864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse Cromwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse |
| FAMILY NAME | Cromwell |
| SIGNATURE | CROMWELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Boundaries of Belonging
Me hace dudar de tu venida”
Bourbon reformers encouraged impoverished Canary Islanders to repopulate and cultivate peripheral locales of the empire throughout the eighteenth century. However, this mobility clashed with the family obligations of those settlers. In 1759, at the age of eighteen, Domingo Galdona left Tenerife in the Canary Islands to make his fortune in Venezuela, settling in Cumaná and accumulating a handsome cacao plantation by his hard work. This rags-to-ric…
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots
In the early republic, a potent mix of commercial aspirations and ideological naivete characterized US diplomatic relations with South America. Tyson Reeder's book explores how North American visions of inevitable republicanism and free trade across the Western Hemisphere came to naught in Brazil. Surveying the give-and-take of state and merchant power emanating from North America, Brazil, Portugal, and Britain between 1760 and 1830, Reeder argue…
Contrabando, poder y color en los albores de la República
Remigio Márquez was an independence war veteran, pardo senator, and customs official in Mompox, Gran Colombia, who prosecuted several politically connected merchants for contraband trading and fraud. Muriel Laurent's intensely researched microhistory covers two years of public conflict between Márquez and these prominent citizens. Laurent digs into administrative correspondence, newspapers and pamphlets, judicial proceedings, parliamentary debate…
Atlantic Disjuncture
This essay reviews the following works:Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820. By Jeremy Baskes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 381. 47.50 hardcover. ISBN: 9780812248661
The Smugglers' World
The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela reinterprets the meaning of illicit commerce in the early modern Atlantic. More than simply a transactional relationship or a political economy concern of empires, smuggling became a societal ethos for the communities in which it was practiced. For most of the colonial period, subjects of the commercially neglected province of Venezuela depended on contra…
Illicit Ideologies
On the afternoon of April 20, 1749, a force of between 400 and 600 armed men amassed on Caracas's central plaza. Entering the city under blue and white flags emblazoned with red crosses, to the sound of beating drums, the deployment comprised a cross section of Venezuela's socio-racial groups, social estates, and occupations. The men followed Juan Francisco de León, a cacao planter and small-town sheriff ( teniente ), and had shouldered their wea…
Staying Afloat. Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820
Staying Afloat. Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820." Colonial Latin American Review, 24(3), pp. 452–453
Contraband
Los mantuanos en la corte española
Frédérique Langue
In Rumores y Sensibilidades en Venezuela Colonial: Cuando de historia cultural se trata, Frédérique Langue offers six essays exploring the methodology of cultural history, the role of rumor in elite society, and patrician anxieties regarding shifting race, class, and gender dynamics in late colonial Caracas. Broadly, the essays are a call to apply cultural history (or what Langue refers to more specifically as the historia de mentalidades) to a r…
More than Slaves and Sugar
Although the plantation as a social and economic organizing principle continues to dominate early modern Caribbean historiography, recent literature has explored outside of its confines to document a range of Antillean inhabitants who were neither masters nor slaves. These subjects exploited the inter‐imperial fluidity of the region to their advantage in order to carve out commercial, strategic, and cultural niches. This article surveys new studi…
Life on the Margins
In 1675, William Dampier set sail from Jamaica for the Bay of Campeche on Mexico's Yucatán coast to trade for logwood. Dampier, who would later become famous as a naturalist, a buccaneer, and one of the foremost chroniclers of the Golden Age of English buccaneering, recorded his experiences over the course of a year spent in English logwood communities near this Spanish settlement. The author's account gives a fascinating portrayal of a society b…
The Smugglers' World
The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela reinterprets the meaning of illicit commerce in the early modern Atlantic. More than simply a transactional relationship or a political economy concern of empires, smuggling became a societal ethos for the communities in which it was practiced. For most of the colonial period, subjects of the commercially neglected province of Venezuela depended on contra…
Life on the Margins
In 1675, William Dampier set sail from Jamaica for the Bay of Campeche on Mexico's Yucatán coast to trade for logwood. Dampier, who would later become famous as a naturalist, a buccaneer, and one of the foremost chroniclers of the Golden Age of English buccaneering, recorded his experiences over the course of a year spent in English logwood communities near this Spanish settlement. The author's account gives a fascinating portrayal of a society b…
More than Slaves and Sugar
Although the plantation as a social and economic organizing principle continues to dominate early modern Caribbean historiography, recent literature has explored outside of its confines to document a range of Antillean inhabitants who were neither masters nor slaves. These subjects exploited the inter‐imperial fluidity of the region to their advantage in order to carve out commercial, strategic, and cultural niches. This article surveys new studi…
Life on the Margins
In 1675, William Dampier set sail from Jamaica for the Bay of Campeche on Mexico's Yucatán coast to trade for logwood. Dampier, who would later become famous as a naturalist, a buccaneer, and one of the foremost chroniclers of the Golden Age of English buccaneering, recorded his experiences over the course of a year spent in English logwood communities near this Spanish settlement. The author's account gives a fascinating portrayal of a society b…
Frédérique Langue
In Rumores y Sensibilidades en Venezuela Colonial: Cuando de historia cultural se trata, Frédérique Langue offers six essays exploring the methodology of cultural history, the role of rumor in elite society, and patrician anxieties regarding shifting race, class, and gender dynamics in late colonial Caracas. Broadly, the essays are a call to apply cultural history (or what Langue refers to more specifically as the historia de mentalidades) to a r…
More than Slaves and Sugar
Although the plantation as a social and economic organizing principle continues to dominate early modern Caribbean historiography, recent literature has explored outside of its confines to document a range of Antillean inhabitants who were neither masters nor slaves. These subjects exploited the inter‐imperial fluidity of the region to their advantage in order to carve out commercial, strategic, and cultural niches. This article surveys new studi…
Staying Afloat. Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820
Staying Afloat. Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820." Colonial Latin American Review, 24(3), pp. 452–453
Contraband
Los mantuanos en la corte española
Illicit Ideologies
On the afternoon of April 20, 1749, a force of between 400 and 600 armed men amassed on Caracas's central plaza. Entering the city under blue and white flags emblazoned with red crosses, to the sound of beating drums, the deployment comprised a cross section of Venezuela's socio-racial groups, social estates, and occupations. The men followed Juan Francisco de León, a cacao planter and small-town sheriff ( teniente ), and had shouldered their wea…
The Smugglers' World
The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela reinterprets the meaning of illicit commerce in the early modern Atlantic. More than simply a transactional relationship or a political economy concern of empires, smuggling became a societal ethos for the communities in which it was practiced. For most of the colonial period, subjects of the commercially neglected province of Venezuela depended on contra…
Contrabando, poder y color en los albores de la República
Remigio Márquez was an independence war veteran, pardo senator, and customs official in Mompox, Gran Colombia, who prosecuted several politically connected merchants for contraband trading and fraud. Muriel Laurent's intensely researched microhistory covers two years of public conflict between Márquez and these prominent citizens. Laurent digs into administrative correspondence, newspapers and pamphlets, judicial proceedings, parliamentary debate…
Atlantic Disjuncture
This essay reviews the following works:Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820. By Jeremy Baskes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 381. 47.50 hardcover. ISBN: 9780812248661
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots
In the early republic, a potent mix of commercial aspirations and ideological naivete characterized US diplomatic relations with South America. Tyson Reeder's book explores how North American visions of inevitable republicanism and free trade across the Western Hemisphere came to naught in Brazil. Surveying the give-and-take of state and merchant power emanating from North America, Brazil, Portugal, and Britain between 1760 and 1830, Reeder argue…
Me hace dudar de tu venida”
Bourbon reformers encouraged impoverished Canary Islanders to repopulate and cultivate peripheral locales of the empire throughout the eighteenth century. However, this mobility clashed with the family obligations of those settlers. In 1759, at the age of eighteen, Domingo Galdona left Tenerife in the Canary Islands to make his fortune in Venezuela, settling in Cumaná and accumulating a handsome cacao plantation by his hard work. This rags-to-ric…
Boundaries of Belonging
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