Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500–1830

This collection maps a rich world of Anglo-Iberian exchange and stands as a notable marker of how far the field has come since Cañizares-Esguerra’s and Gould’s 2007 essays in the American Historical Review forum on “Entangled Empires in the Atlantic World.”¹ In a strident introduction, Cañizares-Esguerra is straightforward about what he sees as the present-day political importance of this work. After acknowledging the tremendous complexity of the early modern Atlantic world, he notes that the book “studies only the entangled history of the Iberian and British Atlantics because it ultimately seeks to bring into focus the centrality of the Iberian-Latino past to the very constitution of the history of this nation.” A historiography (presumably of North America, though Cañizares-Esguerra does not specify) “that brings Latinos into the narrative as ‘minorities’ whose voices need to be heard, is itself complicit in their marginalization. Amerindians, Blacks, and Latinos ought not to...