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"... a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba's return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Porto Bello -- Competition between Empires -- Hosier's Ghost -- Tension in the West Indies -- War -- Dithering, Decision and Defiance -- Expanding War -- Mustering the Americans -- Underway . . . at Last -- Caribbean -- Jamaica -- Saint Domingue to Cartagena -- Tierra Bomba -- Bocachica -- Castillo San Luis de Bocachica -- Tierra Firme -- Castillo San Felipe de Barajas -- Withdrawal -- Santiago -- Panama to Reduction -- Epilogue.

Disbound Original Held in Oak Street Library Facility. ; "Copy of a letter from consul Compton to the duke of Newcastle": p. 59-61. ; "Copy of a representation from the merchants at Lisbon to consul Compton": p. 55-58. ; Head- and tailpieces. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This paper aims to contribute to contemporary research on Spanish images of Englishness and thus on cross-cultural otherness. More precisely, it seeks to identify and describe the composite image of Anglo-Saxon Others as portrayed in ten nineteenth century Spanish history books and to critically discuss the results. Despite Anglo-Saxon England being a marginal issue for nineteenth century Spanish scholarship, it has been proved that existing narratives constitute seminal representations of Anglo-Saxon identity and serve a neatly defined heterogeneous array of political and collective aims1. The present analysis suggests that the portrayal of Anglo-Saxon Others contributes to reinforce the ideological bases on which the Anglo-Saxons themselves are built and reveals the tensions which result from the multiple functions performed by the narratives selected. More in particular, the narratives analysed will be shown to differ according to the degree of detail with which the Anglo-Saxon Others are described, and to roughly conform to the Roman vs Germanic traditions recognised among Anglosaxonists. The tradition a given historian belongs to seems to determine not only the features chosen to represent the Anglo-Saxon Others, but also the number of groups that should be defined as such. Most interestingly, a different concept of race appears to emerge from either ideological platform. From a more general standpoint, this research enhances our understanding of the symbolic nature of stereotypes as created in narratives of major social institutions which maintain a relationship of expert-novice with their audiences. Last but not least, this paper opens up new areas of inquiry for future research.