Colonial Latin American history and global history: proposals on the uses of historical knowledge

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Acknowledgements

This work has been carried out within the framework of the FEDER research group UPO-1264973 ‘In search for the Atlantic aristocracies. Latin America and the peninsular Spanish elites, 1492–1824’ PI, Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla; and also of the PAIDI research group HUM 1000, ‘The history of globalization: violence, negotiation and interculturality,’ PI Igor Pérez Tostado. Both projects are financed by the Regional Government of Andalusia.

Notes

1 Due to space limitations, the bibliographical references have been reduced to a minimum, despite the many contributions and scholars that have long developed research on the lines I propose.

2 A proof of it, though not the only possible approach, can be found in Gruzinski 2004.

3 A more elaborated explanation appears in Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (2023).

4 Some examples can be found in Barreto, Palomo and Stumpf 2018.

5 For an example, see the project ‘ArtEmpire | Conquest, commerce, crisis, culture and the Panamanian Junction’ (PI Bethany Aram) https://www.upo.es/investigacion/artempire/.

6 See the declaration issued by the Colegio de México (2010) evidencing some of these practical problems that are particularly important for the implementation of global history in this field.

7 Stuart B. Schwartz ended the introduction to his last book as follows: ‘very few scholars of the Latin America […] have accepted the challenge to address in depth the history of ethnic and religious contact and interchange on that global scale, and to question how the variety of experiences in different areas of the world affected each other. Nevertheless, I believe that the history of Spain and Portugal’s experience with religious and racial minorities in Latin America continues to be a crucial key to understanding not only that area of the world, but also the global history of empire and race’ (2020).