Smugglers, pirates, diplomacy, and the Spanish Caribbean in the late seventeenth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12413374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan José Ponce Vázquez (0000-0001-9241-3184, University of Alabama, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-73 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Colonial Latin American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-9164 • E-ISSN: 1466-1802 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10609164.2023.2170557 |
| OpenAlex | W4360999769 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In November 1682 the Dutch pirate Nicholas Van Hoorn entered the port of Santo Domingo. He left behind a path of robberies in Spain and attacks on ships of every nationality in West Africa for which English and Dutch authorities sought to prosecute him. The events that transpired during Van Hoorn's visit to Hispaniola reveal that European diplomatic alliances meant little in places where local groups had co-opted the Spanish bureaucracy under their own control and patronage. Local interests used their political influence to maneuver the Spanish administration and to serve their own goals, thus upending Spanish (and by extension, European) diplomatic arrangements. The sack of Veracruz in 1683 was in part the consequence of these actions, showing a worst-case scenario of the impact that events in the Spanish Caribbean borderlands had on the functioning of imperial systems. This article thus seeks to encourage a reevaluation of the relevance of Spanish Caribbean in the functioning of the Spanish colonial system beyond their traditional categorization as marginal enclaves
Administration (probate law · Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Diplomacy · Economic history · Expansionism · Immigration · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Law
The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680
Promiscuous Power
Experiential Caribbean
Creolization and Contraband
A Silver River in a Silver World
The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815
Islanders and Empire
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
The Political and Institutional History of Colonial Spanish America
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
The Creole Archipelago
The Smugglers' World
Virtue in Corruption
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
Pillaging the Empire
Illicit Riches
African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
In the Eye of All Trade
The Merchants of Port Royal, Jamaica, and the Spanish Contraband Trade, 1655-1692
Trade, Plunder, and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica, 1655-89
Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue
The Rise of Portobelo and the Transformation of the Spanish American Slave Trade, 1640s-1730s
La derrota de Penn y Venables en Santo Domingo, 1655
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |