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The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates

Autor Fabio López Lázaro
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2011
In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates.
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez has long been regarded as a work of fiction—in fact, as Latin America's first novel—but Fabio López Lázaro makes a convincing case that the book is a historical account of real events, albeit full of distortions and lies. Using contemporary published accounts, as well as newly discovered documents from Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch archives, he proves that Ramírez voyaged with one of the most famous pirates of all time, William Dampier. López Lázaro's critical translation of The Misfortunes provides the only extensive Spanish eyewitness account of pirates during the period in world history (1650–1750) when they became key agents of the European powers jockeying for international political and economic dominance. An extensive introduction places The Misfortunes within the worldwide struggle that Spain, England, and Holland waged against the ambitious Louis XIV of France, which some historians consider to be the first world war.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292743892
ISBN-10: 0292743890
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 8 b&w photos, 6 maps, 2 charts
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Fabio López Lázaro is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Crime in Early Bourbon Madrid (1700–1808): An Analysis of the Royal Judicial Court's Casebook. His research publications focus on legal and maritime history between 1300 and 1800 and on the interaction between Western European empires and the Americas, Asia, and the Islamic World.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • A Note on the Translation
  • Introductory Study
    • Chapter 1. Introduction
    • Chapter 2. The Viceroy, the Carpenter, and the Pirate
    • Chapter 3. Siamese Treasure, Mexican Merchants, and the Law
    • Chapter 4. Conclusions
  • The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: A Critical Translation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

A critical translation and commentary on a work long regarded as Latin America’s first novel, which proves that this famous tale of piracy is actually a historical account that sheds new light on Spain’s worldwide struggle against the ambitions of France and other European powers.