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Atlantic Texas: European rivalries, Gulf Coast geopolitics, and the Bourbon reforms on New Spain's northern frontier 1685-1755
Monroe, Jennifer M
Monroe, Jennifer M
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[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,
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2014
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Historians studying early eighteenth century Gulf Coast colonization have focused on the Franco-Spanish rivalry over resources in Texas, and the economic benefits of territorial expansion in the New World. Atlantic World studies have only recently begun to develop in more globalized ways, and have barely analyzed colonization within the context of the Bourbon Reforms. This work examines the effects of the Spanish Crown's transition from the Hapsburg to Bourbon monarchies within the early years of civilian settlement on New Spain's northern frontier. Analyzing San Antonio de Bexar, it shows that on a local level Spain only briefly achieved its Bourbon influenced goals for the settlement; isolation and the struggles of frontier survival caused the breakdown of the town's original hierarchies and social distinctions. As a result, the transculturation that occurred between the town's various frontier groups succeeded in shaping Atlantic World policies and their future implementation on New World colonies.
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