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My work centers on colonial Latin American history, the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions, the construction of citizenship and racial categories in 18th- and 19th- century Spanish America. I'm currently the Principal Investigator of the research project The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slavery. A Forgotten History (BlackItaly), funded by the Italian Foundation for the Science.
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This book grapples with the important contemporary question of the boundaries of citizenship and access to naturalization and does so by analysing a body of relevant juridical sources, dating from the end of the eighteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth concerning the free people of color in late colonial and early independent Spanish...
Through the analysis of Agostino Codazzi's experiences in the Atlantic, this article aims at underlining the strong connection between Latin America and the Italian peninsula in the nineteenth century as well as his role in the emergence and development of geography. An officer in the Napoleonic army in Italy and later an exile in Latin America, Co...
Il libro di Augustine Sedgewick sembra seguire le orme di altri libri dedicati all'analisi di commodities come tè, cotone, cacao, che hanno contribuito a forgiare la dimensione globale del capitalismo 1. Anche il caffè ha collegato il mondo: la sua trasformazione "da misteriosa usanza musulmana a raffinato lusso europeo a onnipresente necessità quo...
This article illustrates the strong connection between slave mobility and freedom
in the late 18th and early 19th century Spanish Atlantic. As historiography has
clearly revealed, slavery did not always mean living under the constant supervision
of masters; it entailed some autonomy in terms of physical movement and the ability
to socialize, especi...
Cet article prend en compte la question du genre à l’époque des
Indépendances dans l’Amérique hispanique à partir des recherches les
plus récentes sur les descendants d’Africains et les femmes, en raison
de la forte relation entre race et genre, souvent relevée à cette époque
par les contemporains eux-mêmes. À l’encontre de l’hypothèse qui
considèr...
A través del estudio de la sublevación del departamento de Guayaquil en 1827, provocada por el amotinamiento de la Tercera División del Ejército de Colombia, acantonada en Lima, este artículo pone en evidencia cómo los habitantes de la ciudad y sus instituciones percibían la república colombiana, a la que la provincia había sido incorporada en 1822...
The role played by free people of color in the Spanish American independence movements is at the center of this essay. Their ambiguous status makes them a privileged group to study when examining the negotiation and formation of racial identity as well as the definition of citizenship requirements in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Through an...
The article analyzes the role played by the crisis of the Spanish empire and the Spanish- American wars of independence in the transformation of the social and racial hierarchies during colonial times, as well as the configuration of new social rights. This study of the case of Esmeraldas, a region on the on the north-east border of Ecuador, aims t...
This article analyzes the transformation of the colonial social and political hierarchies and the shaping of new citizenship rights during the crisis of the Spanish empire and the independence wars. After having examined the late-colonial dynamics of class, caste, corporations and social belonging during the final decades of the Bourbon regime, it...
By analyzing a number of trials concerning land disputes that took place between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, this essay examines how freemen of color accessed property in the Pacific lowlands along the frontier of the Spanish empire, stretching from modern-day Colombia to Ecuador. Characterized by alluvial...
Il passaggio dell'America spagnola all'indipendenza non è semplicemente una guerra di liberazione coloniale. È un processo frammentato e complesso, contraddistinto da continuità e discontinuità, da violenze e vendette collettive, in cui le esperienze al di là e al di qua dell'Atlantico si influenzano a vicenda. È la prima dissoluzione di uno di que...
Through the analysis of the recent historiography on free people of colour, this essay underlines the importance of this category to study the relationship between slavery and citizenship in the Atlantic world. Thanks to their origin, people of African descent were considered not only inferiors but also foreigners, and thus excluded from citizenshi...
L'Atlantico non è solo un oceano, è lo spazio che ha permesso al Vecchio Mondo di unirsi al Nuovo, dando vita a società, economie, culture. Il libro narra dell'incontro e dell'interazione tra europei, africani e amerindiani, non rimanendo confinato all'analisi degli imperi o delle economie coloniali: al c'entro vi sono gli uomini, con i loro modi d...
This essay examines the different interpretations historians have attributed to Hispanic American revolutions over time. The relevance of an Atlantic reading of these processes, which has recently emerged, is founded, on the one hand, on the comparability of American societies and dynamics from the Seven Years’ War to the formation of national stat...
Atlantic history is less a new historiographical trend than a methodological approach which rejects both the traditional narration of the occidentalization of the world and the broad generalizations of world history based on economicistic determinism. Atlantic history focuses on men and women seen as workers and consumers, as well as on their polit...
El ensayo aborda el tema de la administracion de justicia, especialmente de la justicia local, en el Ecuador entre Antiguo Regimen y liberalismo. Afirma que los problemas de la justicia sufridos por los ciudadanos durante las primeras decadas republicanas fueron el resultado de tres factores: 1) el papel de los cabildos coloniales americanos como i...
En las dos últimas décadas, gracias a la renovación metodológica de la Historia política, hemos presenciado el nacimiento de un nuevo paradigma historiográfi co sobre la disolución del imperio español y la independencia hispanoamericana. Si en el pasado había sido considerado como un evento natural, una conclusión lógica de un proceso colonial que...
Although historiography has always considered the 10th of August 1809 - date of the creation of the first Junta of Quito - as the symbolic date of Ecuadorian independence, this essay underlines the experience of the second Junta - created in September 1810 and defeated two years later - as a key transitional moment between the colonial and the repu...
En premier lieu, je voudrais remercier les organisatrices pour m’avoir invitee a participer a ce colloque et m’avoir par la forcee a affronter les concepts « race », « ethnie » et « communaute », que nous autres historiens utilisons trop souvent sans les analyser vraiment ou les remettre en question. En second lieu, je voudrais remercier Dominique...
13 ensayos que trazan un balnce histórico e historiográfico de las independencias en diferentes países latinoamericanos. Dos ensayos analizan el conjunto del complejo hispanoamericano.
The main goal of this article is to explain the central role that municipalities played in the Hispano-American world throughout the nineteenth century. Although in recent years the importance of the frst Spanish liberal regime has rightly been stressed in the historiography, it is not possible to understand the important part played by municipalit...
The purpose of this article is to show how the discourse on Imperial Reforms at the end of the 18th century is of great significance to understand the changes in Spanish and Spanish American perceptions about their mutual relations before the collapse of the Spanish Monarchy in 1808. Factors as the Seven Years War and the great 18th century debate...
El propósito de este ensayo es demostrar que el verdadero proyecto del autonomismo criollo quiteño durante la crisis de la monarquía española fue la construcción de un gobierno o estado mixto. En realidad, el estado mixto o la monarquía templada, como se definía en aquel entonces, había constituido el modelo político de los criollos americanos desd...
This article analyzes the new historiographic perspectives developed in recent studies of 19th century Spanish American political history. Grouping these studies around three fundamental topics - political citizenship and nation building, violence and war, and the institutionalization of the state - it underlines how these new interpretations help...
PresentacionDesde la perspectiva de distintas historiograficas no anglo-americanas (caribeanista, europea, euro-africanista, euro-americanista y latinoamericana), la Atlantic History o Historia Atlantica es una propuesta historiografica que al mismo tiempo que genera interes, tambien provoca perplejidad y hasta rechazo por parte de los historiadore...
Este ensayo se ocupa de investigar la importancia política que tuvo el cabildo entre el período de las reformas borbónicas, la crisis de la monarquía española y el proceso de formación de los estados independientes. Se analiza la consolidación de los poderes jurisdiccionales de los cabildos durante la última fase de la época
colonial y la manera en...
Résumé
Durant les quinze dernières années, on a assisté à la publication de très nombreux ouvrages sur l’histoire politique hispano-américaine du XIXe siècle. Ce regain d’intérêt, grâce à l’impulsion du renouvellement méthodologique et conceptuel du politique, a amené les historiens à remettre en cause l’ancienne interprétation selon laquelle l’ind...
This article studies the language, ideas and political models of the Quito elite in the formative period of the two earlier «juntas». In particular, the ideal of a «mixed government» inspired by various schools of thought such as scholasticism, natural law, and the republican tradition of the Renaissance and the modern period. This is, in our opini...
This essay concerns the political effects produced by Bourbon reforms in the district of Quito. These measures gave rise to a great political-institutional conflict, leading to a redefinition of the relationship between central and local authorities. Following the implementation of the early fiscal measures and the rebellion of 1765, the redefiniti...
