Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic

Dr. Harald E. Braun, D.Phil. Oxon. (2001), is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Liverpool. His publications on early modern European, especially Spanish, intellectual history, include Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (Ashgate, 2007).Dr. Lisa Vollendorf, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1995), is Dean of the College of Humanities and Arts at San José State University in California. She has published two monographs and three edited collections on women's cultural and literary history in early modern Spain and the Ibero-American Atlantic, including The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain (2005).

• CONTENTSForeword vii Jorge Cañizares-EsguerraIntroductionThe Atlantic Turn: Rethinking the Ibero-American Atlantic 1 Harald E. Braun and Lisa VollendorfPART ONEDEFINING THE IBERO-AMERICAN ATLANTICThe Iberian Atlantic: Ties, Networks, and Boundaries 15 Francisco BethencourtUnderstanding the Lusophone Atlantic 37 David BrookshawThe Iberian Atlantic, 1492–2012 51 José C. Moya“A Hemisphere to Itself”: The American Revolution and the Entangled History of the Western Atlantic 75 Eliga H. GouldPART TWOEARLY MODERN EXCHANGES: IDENTITIES AND TIES (1492–1850)Gender in the Atlantic World: Women’s Writing in Iberia and Latin America 99 Lisa Vollendorf and Grady C. WrayBetween Ethnicity, Commerce, Religion, and Race: The Elusive Definition of an Early Modern Jewish Atlantic 117 David GraizbordScientific Practices in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic 141 Mauricio Nieto Olarte Literary Exchange in the Portuguese-Brazilian Atlantic before 1822 159 Vanda Anastácio PART THREE TRANSATLANTIC MIGRATIONS: CULTURE AND HISTORY RECONSIDERED (1850-TODAY) The Origins of Atlantic Modernism and the Spanish-Speaking World 175 Andrew Ginger Hidden in Plain View: Catalans and the Making of Modern Uruguay 199 Thomas Harrington Theses on the Politics of Memory across the Atlantic 221 Luis Martín-Cabrera Domesticity, Motherhood, and Transnational Reproductive Work in Contemporary Latin American Immigration to Spain 241 Daniela Flesler and N. Michelle Shepherd Epilogue Transatlantic Hispanism or Ibero-Atlanticism? 265 Joan Ramon Resina Works Cited 273 Notes on Contributors 303 Index 309