Spain and the American Revolution

Gabriel Paquette is Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Oregon. He was Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London in 2017–2018.Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, a senior Spanish diplomat, is author of Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, which recently won the Society for Military History’s Best Book Prize.

• AcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesGabriel Paquette and Gonzalo Quintero SaraviaIntroduction: Spain and the American RevolutionAnthony McFarlane The American Revolution and Spanish America, 1776-1814Larrie D. Ferreiro The Rise and Fall of the Spanish–French Bourbon Armada, from Toulon to Pensacola to TrafalgarMaría Bárbara Zepeda Cortés José’s Secrets: Minister Gálvez’s Master Plan for Spain’s Participation in the American RevolutionManuel Lucena-Giraldo "Foreseeing what great occasions might come": American Independence and Spanish Naval ReformersEmily Berquist Soule The Spanish Slave Trade during the American Revolutionary War John W. Nelson Spain's Bid for the American Interior? The Imperial Contest over the Revolutionary Great LakesEmmanuelle Perez Tisserant Spain and the American Revolution: A Pacific PerspectiveBenjamin C. Lyons Law in Early Modern Diplomacy: The Jay-Floridablanca Negotiations of 1780Mary-Jo Kline Sarah Livingston Jay (1756-1802): A Republican Lady in SpainRoss Michael Nedervelt Securing the Borderlands/seas in the American Revolution: The Spanish-American Alliance and Regional Security against the British EmpireGregg French Spain and the Birth of the America Republic: Establishing Lasting Bonds of Kinship in the Revolutionary EraEric Becerra A New Guardian: The Values of the American Revolution in Post-Revolutionary Spanish Louisiana SettlementsEduardo Posada-Carbó Spanish America and US Constitutionalism in the Age of RevolutionBibliographyIndex