William Davis Robinson: Trader, Agent,  and Defender of Spanish American  Independence, 1799-1819

Johanna Von Grafenstein

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dc.creator	Johanna Von Grafenstein
dc.date	2017
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-22T20:25:00Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-22T20:25:00Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85550591009
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/104886
dc.description	The paper proposes a re-reading of the actions and writings of the US merchant William Davis Robinson in the context of the 18 th and 19 th Centuries travel literature examined in recent decades by certain authors. It is based on the concept travelers of revolutions by which we understand individuals who are in a country, region or city temporarily, who see themselves as visitors or external observers, and describe and analyze a given political or social process of transformation with an external glance and write for an external audience. The paper analyzes two texts: A Cursory View of Spanish America published by the author in 1815 and Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution published in 1820, and argues that Robinsons Memoirs can indeed be understood as travel writing sympathe - tic to the Mexican revolution; while the other one is an informed description of the available resources and commercial possibilities with Mexico and the countries of South America, once they had gained their independence, as well as a manifesto proclaiming the United States as leader and guardian of free - dom in this hemisphere, in opposition to European powers, such as Spain and Great Britain.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidad del Norte
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=855
dc.rights	Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe
dc.source	Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe (Colombia) Num.31
dc.subject	Historia
dc.subject	William D Robinson
dc.subject	travel writing
dc.subject	Mexico
dc.subject	Latin America
dc.subject	independence
dc.subject	commerce
dc.subject	interests of powers
dc.subject	Great Britain
dc.subject	Spain
dc.subject	United States
dc.subject	geopolitics
dc.subject	interoceanic communication
dc.title	William Davis Robinson: Trader, Agent, and Defender of Spanish American Independence, 1799-1819
dc.type	artículo científico