Wood, Trade, and Spanish Naval Power (c.1740-1795)

Rafał B. Reichert, Ph.D. (2010), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), is Professor of Latin American History at the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies at the University of Warsaw. He has published many articles on Latin America and Europe in scientific journals and three monographs, including Sobre las olas de un mar plateado. La política defensiva española y el financiamiento militar novohispano en la región del Gran Caribe, 1598-1700 (CEPHCIS-UNAM, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Maps and TablesIntroductionPART 11 Spanish Navy Wood Supplies from the Southern Baltic and Riga1 The Marquis of Ensenada and the Supply of Timber for the Spanish Navy2 Mathy–Schultz Versus Gil de Meester3 Baltic Timber and the Asiento of the Gil de Meester Brothers (1751–1760)4 Retortillo and Aragorri’s Wood Asiento (1761–1766)5 The French Naval Construction System and Soto’s, Chone’s, and Marraci’s Asientos (1772–1782)6 Baltic Timber under the Control of the Banco de San Carlos and the Asiento of the Swedish Company Gahn2 The Southern Baltic Hinterland and Timber Extraction1 Timber Cutting in Pomerania and along the Odra River and Its Trade in Szczecin2 Examples of Forest Management by the Prussian Crown in Silesia, Kłodzko, and Pomerania in the Second Half of the 18th Century3 Szczecin and the Spanish Connection during the Second Half of the 18th Century4 Filip Chone’s Visit to Szczecin and Proposals for the Supply of Prussian Timber to the Spanish Navy in the 1770s5 Timber and Its Trade in Gdańsk During the Second Half of the 18th Century6 Some Information about Forestry Knowledge and Forest Management Policy in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Second Half of the 18th Century7 Spanish Knowledge about Poland, Based on the Description of the Count of Aranda During His Trip to Gdańsk8 The Radziwiłł: Timber Felling and Trade with Königsberg, Memel, and Riga9 The Radziwiłłs’ Land and Forest Estates10 Production and Shipment of Wood from the Radziwiłł Estates in 1744–179311 Examples of Radziwiłł Timber Trade in Southern Baltic PortsPART 23 The Survey of New Spain’s Woodlands1 The Exploitation of Timber for the Shipbuilding Industry in the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the 18th Century2 Pine Felling in the Hills of Chimalapas3 Pine Felling in Chimalapas under Royal Supervision (1765–1771)4 Expenses: Wages and Oxen for the Chimalapas Enterprise5 Forest Resources and Naval Wood Sourcing in Sierra Madre Oriental6 Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa’s Land Survey Instructions7 Miguel del Corral and His Contribution to the Scientific Knowledge of New Spain8 Relation of the Survey Carried out in the Hills of Teziutlán and Perote (Veracruz)9 The Major Survey Expedition of Miguel del Corral and Joaquín de Aranda to South of Veracruz10 Information about the Exploitation of Natural Resources in Miguel Del Corral’s Relación11 The Survey of the Antigua and Nautla Rivers and the Mecacalco Hills12 Survey of the Antigua River in August 1778 and Inspection of a Pine Forest in Mecacalco, Santa María Tlapacoya, and Nautla Rivers in September 177813 Projects to Source Wood in Other Regions in New Spain, Such as the Usumacinta River and Laguna de Términos14 Wood Species in New Spain, Based on Subdelegate Pedro Cabezas’s Survey of Huejutla4 Timber Asientos for the Spanish Royal Navy in New Spain1 Early Timber Asientos in the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the Second Half of the 18th Century2 An Attempted Asiento for Masting in Favour of Domingo Ramón Balcarsel in 17683 The 1783 Order by the Secretary of the Navy, Antonio Valdés, to Undertake Large-Scale Felling in New Spain4 The Asientos Awarded in Veracruz in 1784–17875 The Balance of the Wood Asientos Signed in New Spain (1784–1787)6 Wood Extraction Areas under the Jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the Second Half of the 18th Century: Examples from Cuba and Louisiana7 Use of Cuban Wood by Havana’s Shipbuilding Industry8 Garibaldo’s Project as the Model for State-Sponsored Exploitation of Wood in Cuba9 Illegal British Timber-Felling Operations in Cuba10 The Wood Business in Louisiana and New Orleans in the Late 18th Century11 Wood Sourcing Projects Elsewhere in the Greater Caribbean12 Woodland Areas in Cartagena de Indias and the Magdalena RiverGeneral ConclusionsAppendixGlossary of Spanish WordsBiblographyIndex