Bernardo De Gálvez

Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, SJD, PhD, is the author of several books on eighteenth-century Spanish American history and a former fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

“In tracing the experiences of this one individual, Saravia is able to glean several important insights into the eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic world. . . . Readers across several subfields are sure to benefit from his re-introduction of a significant figure in the history of the revolutionary Atlantic world.”—Journal of American History“For anyone seeking to know more about the Spanish dimensions of the American Revolution, Quintero Saravia’s Bernardo de Gálvez should be required reading. Rarely has a historian treated the subject so thoroughly or with so much erudition. The result is an important addition to scholarship on the American founding, one that situates the revolution in the wider continental and hemispheric context where it belongs.”—William and Mary Quarterly“This book provides readers with a thorough analysis of the inner workings of the Spanish governmental hierarchy in the late eighteenth century and places Bernardo de Gí¡lvez’s achievements within the reform-minded Spanish emphasis on Enlightenment ideals, merit-based promotions, and a focus on empire that also produced the Bourbon reforms.”—Journal of Southern History“In this first full-length, scholarly biography of Bernardo de Gálvez . . . Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia has achieved a delightful blend of storytelling and substance.”—Journal of the Early Republic“Drawing on archives in Spain, Mexico, the US, and Great Britain, Quintero Saravia expands knowledge of Gí¡lvez’s role in campaigns against Apache Indians in Mexico and of the period Gí¡lvez spent in Iberia between military service in New Spain (1769–72) and as governor of Louisiana (1776–85).”—CHOICE“In tracing the experiences of this one individual, Saravia is able to glean several important insights into the eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic world. . . . Readers across several subfields are sure to benefit from his re-introduction of a significant figure in the history of the revolutionary Atlantic world.”—Journal of American History“This is an important book and anyone interested in colonial American history, and particularly in what happened in eighteenth-century Louisiana, will find it required reading.”—Arkansas Historical Quarterly“For anyone seeking to know more about the Spanish dimensions of the American Revolution, Quintero Saravia’s Bernardo de Gí¡lvez should be required reading. Rarely has a historian treated the subject so thoroughly or with so much erudition. The result is an important addition to scholarship on the American founding, one that situates the revolution in the wider continental and hemispheric context where it belongs.”—William and Mary Quarterly“Quintero Seravia’s excellent biography of Gí¡lvez should serve to enlighten those who wish to learn more about this historical figure that played such a crucial role in the American Revolution.”—H-Net Reviews“Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia’s biography unwraps an exciting and complex life story of the Spaniard Bernardo de Gí¡lvez with an ambitious scope that changes our understanding of the American Revolution. . . . A significant contribution.”—Missouri Historical Review