Conference Presentations by Deborah Besseghini
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: “AMBIVALENT EMPIRES."
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MHS Program, 2023
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Deborah Besseghini (Università degli Studi di Torino, Turín, Italia): El poder de la ayuda: Rober... more Deborah Besseghini (Università degli Studi di Torino, Turín, Italia): El poder de la ayuda: Robert Ponsonby Staples, agente imperial británico
en el Río de la Plata (1808-1820)
Andrés Baeza Ruz (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago de Chile, Chile):¿Agente imperial o mediador cultural? Las múltiples facetas del comerciante británico Juan Diego Barnard en Chile durante la Era de las revoluciones (1813-1829)
Mariano Schlez (UNS-CONICET, Bahía Blanca, Argentina): Conocer la revolución: el informe de Woodbine Parish y la estrategia británica
para América latina (1822)
Comentarista: Martín Wasserman (Instituto Ravignani UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
En el marco del Seminario de posgrado
LOS IMPERIOS EUROPEOS, VECTORES DE MUNDIALIZACIÓN (SIGLOS XVI-XXI) dictado por Deborah Besseghini (Università degli Studi di Torino)
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23 febbraio 2023 | Spring Seminars 2022/2023 Dottorato in Global History of Empires
ore 15.00
... more 23 febbraio 2023 | Spring Seminars 2022/2023 Dottorato in Global History of Empires
ore 15.00
Torino, CLE, 3D233
Program:
Andrey Iserov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Foreign Agency, Consequences Local and Global: On the Necessity and Contingency in Spanish American Independence
Deborah Besseghini, University of Turin, Italy
The Space of Imperialism: Imperial Agents and other Players in the Great Game of Spanish-American Independence, 1806-1824
Mariano Schlez, National University of the South/CONICET, Argentina
Knowing the Revolution: Woodbine Parish’s Report and the British Strategy for Latin America (1822)
Discussants:
Rory Miller, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Andrés Baeza, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile
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24 al 28 de julio de 2023 "Incertidumbre, crisis y conflictos desde la modernidad hasta nuestros ... more 24 al 28 de julio de 2023 "Incertidumbre, crisis y conflictos desde la modernidad hasta nuestros días"
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Seminario Interinstitucional: Corporaciones, comercio y servicios al Rey en Hispanoamérica, siglos XVII a XIX,Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Città del Messico
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Current Issues of Imperial History, Milano, Italia
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IX Jornadas de investigación en humanidades, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
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2018, Italia e America Latina: forme, dinamiche e rappresentazioni di un’interazione sociale e culturale, XVI XX secolo (Rolando Minuti PRIN 2015) Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento SAGAS
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IV Congreso Peruano de Historia Económica, Piura
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Vanishing Indians, International Conference, 2016
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15th Annual Conference, Transatlantic Studies Association, 4-6 July , 2016
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RADICAL AMERICAS, London, 2016
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Nuova rivista storica, anno CVII, fascicolo 1, 2023, pp.157-206, 2023
This study retraces a significant story about both Hispanic America’s position in the British “Im... more This study retraces a significant story about both Hispanic America’s position in the British “Imperial Meridian” and Britain’s contribution to South American independence. The story tells about Robert Ponsonby Staples, and it pulls back the curtain on initiatives and negotiations that influenced the political reconfiguration of South America and established sufficient western bases of “imperial security” for Britain’s world empire. Staples was the cadet son of an Irish ex-member of Parliament
with family ties to both Castlereagh and Wellington. He was appointed consul in Buenos Aires in 1811, acting informally as a confidential agent for the Foreign Office. His story helps us both investigate the role of “imperial” agents in Hispanic America and reflect on the margin of influence wielded by the great powers before the new states were recognised. This influence was even greater if exercised by unofficial
envoys, bounded solely to their patrons and free to explicitly pursue undeclared interests of the mother country. Staples acted within a political space that we could define as an “intermediate area” between what agents were able to do and Britain’s official policy. According to the author, the unofficial policy is the realm of “informal imperialism”. This political (not economic) category heretofore used infrequently for the independence era is, on the contrary, particularly suitable in contexts of political
reconfiguration when power was mainly exerted to create an acceptable new order in the imperial interest. Moreover, research conducted in European and American archives has uncovered evidence of concrete British support to San Martín’s liberation campaigns, between private and public initiatives.
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Illes i imperis
Mediante el concepto de imperialismo informal, y revisando convenciones arraigadas, definimos aqu... more Mediante el concepto de imperialismo informal, y revisando convenciones arraigadas, definimos aquí algunas causas externas del colapso del imperio español que se pueden vincular al fortalecimiento del poder británico (estructural, relacional y habilitador) en el Río de la Plata. Las estrategias de seguridad imperial británica relativas a Hispanoamérica durante las guerras napoleónicas están asociadas a la acción de redes aliadas y a la apertura comercial, vector de ese poder gracias a la protección de la Marina. La sinergia entre agentes que respondían al gobierno británico y actores más independientes emerge de la correspondencia oficial y semioficial sobre la disputa con el Virrey Cisneros, quien luego de abrir el comercioamenazó con expulsar a los británicos en vísperas de la Revolución de Mayo.
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Conference Presentations by Deborah Besseghini
en el Río de la Plata (1808-1820)
Andrés Baeza Ruz (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago de Chile, Chile):¿Agente imperial o mediador cultural? Las múltiples facetas del comerciante británico Juan Diego Barnard en Chile durante la Era de las revoluciones (1813-1829)
Mariano Schlez (UNS-CONICET, Bahía Blanca, Argentina): Conocer la revolución: el informe de Woodbine Parish y la estrategia británica
para América latina (1822)
Comentarista: Martín Wasserman (Instituto Ravignani UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
En el marco del Seminario de posgrado
LOS IMPERIOS EUROPEOS, VECTORES DE MUNDIALIZACIÓN (SIGLOS XVI-XXI) dictado por Deborah Besseghini (Università degli Studi di Torino)
ore 15.00
Torino, CLE, 3D233
Program:
Andrey Iserov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Foreign Agency, Consequences Local and Global: On the Necessity and Contingency in Spanish American Independence
Deborah Besseghini, University of Turin, Italy
The Space of Imperialism: Imperial Agents and other Players in the Great Game of Spanish-American Independence, 1806-1824
Mariano Schlez, National University of the South/CONICET, Argentina
Knowing the Revolution: Woodbine Parish’s Report and the British Strategy for Latin America (1822)
Discussants:
Rory Miller, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Andrés Baeza, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile
journal articles by Deborah Besseghini
with family ties to both Castlereagh and Wellington. He was appointed consul in Buenos Aires in 1811, acting informally as a confidential agent for the Foreign Office. His story helps us both investigate the role of “imperial” agents in Hispanic America and reflect on the margin of influence wielded by the great powers before the new states were recognised. This influence was even greater if exercised by unofficial
envoys, bounded solely to their patrons and free to explicitly pursue undeclared interests of the mother country. Staples acted within a political space that we could define as an “intermediate area” between what agents were able to do and Britain’s official policy. According to the author, the unofficial policy is the realm of “informal imperialism”. This political (not economic) category heretofore used infrequently for the independence era is, on the contrary, particularly suitable in contexts of political
reconfiguration when power was mainly exerted to create an acceptable new order in the imperial interest. Moreover, research conducted in European and American archives has uncovered evidence of concrete British support to San Martín’s liberation campaigns, between private and public initiatives.
en el Río de la Plata (1808-1820)
Andrés Baeza Ruz (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago de Chile, Chile):¿Agente imperial o mediador cultural? Las múltiples facetas del comerciante británico Juan Diego Barnard en Chile durante la Era de las revoluciones (1813-1829)
Mariano Schlez (UNS-CONICET, Bahía Blanca, Argentina): Conocer la revolución: el informe de Woodbine Parish y la estrategia británica
para América latina (1822)
Comentarista: Martín Wasserman (Instituto Ravignani UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
En el marco del Seminario de posgrado
LOS IMPERIOS EUROPEOS, VECTORES DE MUNDIALIZACIÓN (SIGLOS XVI-XXI) dictado por Deborah Besseghini (Università degli Studi di Torino)
ore 15.00
Torino, CLE, 3D233
Program:
Andrey Iserov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Foreign Agency, Consequences Local and Global: On the Necessity and Contingency in Spanish American Independence
Deborah Besseghini, University of Turin, Italy
The Space of Imperialism: Imperial Agents and other Players in the Great Game of Spanish-American Independence, 1806-1824
Mariano Schlez, National University of the South/CONICET, Argentina
Knowing the Revolution: Woodbine Parish’s Report and the British Strategy for Latin America (1822)
Discussants:
Rory Miller, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Andrés Baeza, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile
with family ties to both Castlereagh and Wellington. He was appointed consul in Buenos Aires in 1811, acting informally as a confidential agent for the Foreign Office. His story helps us both investigate the role of “imperial” agents in Hispanic America and reflect on the margin of influence wielded by the great powers before the new states were recognised. This influence was even greater if exercised by unofficial
envoys, bounded solely to their patrons and free to explicitly pursue undeclared interests of the mother country. Staples acted within a political space that we could define as an “intermediate area” between what agents were able to do and Britain’s official policy. According to the author, the unofficial policy is the realm of “informal imperialism”. This political (not economic) category heretofore used infrequently for the independence era is, on the contrary, particularly suitable in contexts of political
reconfiguration when power was mainly exerted to create an acceptable new order in the imperial interest. Moreover, research conducted in European and American archives has uncovered evidence of concrete British support to San Martín’s liberation campaigns, between private and public initiatives.
globalization. It looks specifically at how arms supplies to governments encouraged the early post-mercantilist development of South American commerce, and
some of the domino effects of such development. This turning point in economic history is analyzed through the biographical trajectories of merchants who were
well positioned between geopolitics and trade, and who had “imperial” functions without being formally involved in imperialist projects. Business and political
correspondence, notarial documents, and customs registers from archives in Europe and the Americas reveal the workings of networks and business affairs of
global merchants whose companies were major arms importers in Buenos Aires during the years leading to Chile’s liberation. The threads of John McNeile’s (an
important but neglected figure) and David DeForest’s networks hook onto the principal economic and political laboratories of the countries from whence most
arms were imported: Great Britain and the United States. They reached Chile and Peru from Buenos Aires and remained crucial to the liberation campaigns,
encouraging further commercial expansion along the American Pacific coast and toward Asia, and pioneering financial adventures. Relations between commercial
houses active in Hispanic America and Asia reveal British and US transpacific networks and ties between Hispanic American and Asian commerce and economies.
The article thus shows how, by bringing together fragmented and scattered sources from both sides of the Atlantic, the significance of the arms trade in South
America as a driving force of globalization emerges.
aquí algunas causas externas del colapso del imperio español que se pueden vincular
al fortalecimiento del poder británico (estructural, relacional y habilitador) en el Río de la
Plata. Las estrategias de seguridad imperial británica relativas a Hispanoamérica durante las
guerras napoleónicas están asociadas a la acción de redes aliadas y a la apertura comercial,
vector de ese poder gracias a la protección de la Marina. La sinergia entre agentes que respondían
al gobierno británico y actores más independientes emerge de la correspondencia
oficial y semioficial sobre la disputa con el Virrey Cisneros, quien luego de abrir el comercio
amenazó con expulsar a los británicos en vísperas de la Revolución de Mayo.
during this era of reconfiguration.
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Temática del simposio: El panel analiza la vinculación entre comerciantes “extranjeros” europeos
(franceses, británicos, bálticos…) e hispanos activos en América en el tránsito del sistema imperial
mercantilista al sistema liberal decimonónico. Iremos más allá de los puertos transoceánicos para incursionar
en el comercio local tanto terrestre como marítimo. Proponemos estudiar los grandes puertos de
Hispanoamérica como punto de conexión entre el comercio global y la economía del interior, sobre la base
del análisis de alianzas empresariales y de mecanismos de intercambio semi coactivos. Se propone el estudio
de casos como circuitos mercantiles, precios, instrumentos monetarios, fiscales y financieros. ¿Cuáles fueros
los mecanismos utilizados en la restructuración comercial en el contexto de crisis y guerra en la Era de las
revoluciones? ¿Y cómo se consolidó una nueva estructura de intercambios locales e internacionales a partir
de dichas relaciones? ¿Y qué papel tuvieron los actores y los canales del comercio hispanoamericano en la
configuración del libre cambio? Se investigan continuidades y rupturas: entre las redes trans-imperiales de la
última fase mercantilista y la configuración de nuevas hegemonías, canales y actores en el comercio a larga
distancia; y entre los entramados profundos, regionales, de los circuitos mercantiles y las fuerzas motrices de
la segunda gran globalización.
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https://www.uniroma1.it/it/offerta-formativa/corso-di-alta-formazione/2022/storia-storiografia-e-scienze-umane
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El curso, que se llevará a cabo en línea a través de la plataforma Zoom, comenzará el 25 de agosto 2022 y tendrá una duración de 5 semanas. Lo conforman unas 25 clases, que se impartirán de lunes a viernes, aproximadamente en las siguientes franjas horarias: de 9.30 a 11.30 horas, horario de Ciudad de Guatemala, y de 10.30 a 13.30 horas, horario de Ciudad de México.
Los profesores del curso – principalmente historiadores de la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea, junto con historiadores del arte e historiadores de la filosofía – desempeñan sus labores de investigación y de docencia en algunas de las mejores universidades de Europa y América Latina. La principal lengua del curso será el español (algunas clases serán en italiano, aunque de fácil comprensión).
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