Calvo Maturana, Antonio
(2008)
Genesis del II Imperio Britanico y ocaso del universalismo espanol: la doble vertiente del conflicto de Nootka (1790).
Hispania. Revista Española de Historia, LXVIII (228).
pp. 151-192.
ISSN 0018-2141
Abstract
The Nootka-Sound affair is a great opportunity to analyse international
relationships during the first phase of the French Revolution as well as the
emergence of the contemporary concept of colonialism. The Spanish Monarchy and
its long-established family alliances within the House of Bourbon had to face a new
diplomatic environment in which Great Britain and revolutionary France had a
dominant role. To understand those changes and the way in which different
political powers adapted to them, we will consider the two principal parties
involved. For this purpose, we will focus mainly on the Spanish and the British
ambassadors’ correspondence following a new approach
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