The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Contesting Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Atlantic World

The Persistence of Mutual Influence: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Brown ◽  
Gabriel Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

The independence of Latin America from colonial rule in the first decades of the nineteenth century is generally held to have broken the bonds which had linked Europe to the Americas for three centuries. This article contends that a re-examination of the decade of the 1820s reveals the persistence, as well as the reconfiguration, of connections between the Old World and the New after the dissolution of the Iberian Atlantic monarchies. Some of these multi-faceted connections are introduced and explored, most notably commercial ties, intellectual and cultural influences, immigration, financial obligations, the slave trade and its suppression, and diplomatic negotiations. Recognition and appreciation of these connections has important consequences for our understandings of the history of the Atlantic World, the ‘Age of Revolutions’, and Latin American Independence itself.

Mercantile Credit and Financing in Venezuela, 1830–1870

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Financial Transactions

The activities of the mercantile houses operating in the import–export trade are of primary importance in tracing and analyzing the nature of economic growth in nineteenth-century Latin America. As a necessary corollary to their trade activities, many houses were also involved in shipping and served as conduits for financial transactions of all types, collecting, receiving and remitting funds as well as making local investments, advances and loans. Mercantile houses thus served as the commercial– financial bridgehead between the new republics and the North Atlantic world. Naturally, not all mercantile houses participated in these activities to the same degree, and a distinction should be noted between agents for houses and partners.

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