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Ernesto Bassi examines the lives of those who resided in the Caribbean between 1760 and 1860 to trace the configuration of a dynamic geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean, where residents made their own geographies and futures while trade, information, and people circulated freely across borders.

AbstractDuring the 1820s, Colombia's diplomats in London, Washington and Philadelphia worked hard to obtain diplomatic recognition for their nascent republic. Their efforts were also geared towards making Colombia attractive to European and North American settlers whose industry and work ethic would, they hoped, turn it into a civilised and modern Euro-Atlantic nation. The immigration schemes they promoted enable us to understand the type of nations the nation-makers of post-independence Spanish America envisioned and how, by appealing to sentiments of hemispheric solidarity – among other means – they sought to turn their visions into reality. A comparison with similar eighteenth-century schemes promoted by the Bourbons, moreover, reveals the persistence, albeit with some critical modifications, of late-colonial ways of thinking and envisioning society.

On July 21, 1786 a secret meeting took place in the office of the Spanish ambassador in Paris, Count of Aranda. The ambassador, aided by the Irish abbot O'Sullivan (who acted as translator), met John Brooks, a British captain who introduced himself as a loyalist veteran of the American Revolution. Brooks had come to Paris from London, all expenses covered by the Spanish government, to inform Aranda of an expedition projected in Britain to invade the northern coast of South America in the vicinity of the port of Cartagena. According to Brooks, Juan Blommart, a French veteran of the American Revolution, was the leader of the projected expedition. With official British backing—Brooks declared that the Marquis of Buckingham was sponsoring the expedition—and the participation of military adventurers John Cruden and Francisco de Miranda, the expedition was scheduled to sail before the end of the year. After receiving Aranda's report, the Spanish Ministry of the Indies sent the information across the Atlantic to New Granada's Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Góngora for him to make all the necessary preparations to face this potential threat.

El Centro de Estudios Económicos Regionales (CEER) fue el primer esfuerzo del Banco de la República para descentralizar la investigación económica, la cual tenía como único centro de operaciones la oficina principal en Bogotá. Es así como en 1997, se puso en marcha el primer centro regional en la sucursal de Cartagena. Inicialmente fue llamado Centro de Investigaciones Económicas del Caribe y luego, en 2001, se convierte en Centro de Estudios Económicos Regionales (CEER), realizando estudios de todas las regiones del país. En 2017, con motivo de la celebración de los 20 años de existencia del CEER, se decidió adelantar un proyecto en el que participarían un grupo de destacados investigadores y estudiosos de la realidad Caribe. El propósito de tal proyecto era realizar un balance de la evolución y principales investigaciones durante las dos últimas décadas en seis dimensiones en particular: Historiografía, Estudios Económicos y Sociales, Arqueología, Estructuras Políticas, Cultura y algunos de los Carnavales y Festivales más populares en la región.