The Rise and Fall of George Frederic Augustus II
The Central American, Caribbean, and Atlantic Life of a Miskitu King, 1805–1824
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9625880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Damian Clavel (0000-0003-3468-970X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 525-558 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007680522000575 |
| OpenAlex | W4306155794 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
Retracing closely the events of the life of George Frederic, king of the Miskitu (in present-day Honduras and Nicaragua) between 1816 and 1824, this article describes how this Miskitu actor sought to set up, by hiring British agents, the concrete realization of a Central American commercial and political independence project—understood here as a utopia. Although his project ended in failure, the actions of this little-known Miskitu king had repercussions in the Caribbean and beyond, even in the heart of the City of London. Concentrating on a marginal actor seldom considered by historians reveals how particular American Indigenous peoples sought to actively position themselves in the important commercial and political transformations affecting the Atlantic World in the first decades of the nineteenth century
Art history · Atlantic hurricane · Economic history · Geography · George (robot · Independence (probability theory · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Tropical cyclone · Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean · Historical Studies in Central America · History · Law
Imperial Eyes
Colonial and postcolonial utopias
The Black Carib Wars
Inglorious Revolution
Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
Privateers of the Americas
Class, culture, and the Miskito Indians
The rise of the Mosquito Kingdom in Central America's Caribbean borderlands
Colonial “Blind Spots”
Journals and Reminiscences of James Douglas, M.D
British Merchants in New Markets
The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c.1760–1840
Tradition and Revolt in Latin America and Other Essays
E. G. Squier and the Miskito
To Study the Fragments/Whole
Aliens in a Revolutionary World
Bonds and Brands
Hidden Spaces of Empire
A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America
Kingship among the Miskito
Gregor McGregor and the Colonization of Poyais, between 1820 and 1824
The Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Mosquitia
"God Save the King of the Mosquito Nation!" Indigenous Leaders on the Fringe of the Spanish Empire
General, Governor, and Admiral
The Cultural Ecology of a Colonial Tribe
The Miskito Kings and the Line of Succession
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |