Spanish Governor Zéspedes, writing in 1788 to a superior about his impressions of East Florida, decried the colony’s reliance on Havana as its sole source of supply. The majority of the colonists were far too impoverished, he wrote, to afford the high prices of goods shipped via Cuba. He continued: “[T]hat a poor immigrant at the end of one year, when he has made his first crop, or a Minorcan with a wife and four or five children who does not earn half a peso fuerte a day, should have to provide his family with goods bought from that place [Havana] and feed them with food from New Spain— I must honestly say that I consider such a thing impossible even with the most industrious effort on their parts, at least until this country has developed...
In his 1984 assessment of the state of historical research, The Transatlantic Economy, Jacob Price...
When Josiah Blakeley, consul of the United States at Santiago de Cuba, wrote these lines to Secretar...
La farina, un bé considerat de primera necessitat per a la població, ens serveix de fil conductor p...
In late June 1791, St. Augustine captain Don Antonio de Alcantara sailed into Havana harbor at the h...
In 1605, Pedro de Ybarra, Governor of Florida, sent a terse note to Fray Benito de Blasco, a mission...
Ten months were required to complete the evacuation of the Spanish population from the St. Augustine...
On his 10,000-acre plantation along the St. Johns River, Francis Philip Fatio had much to claim. Wit...
This dissertation reveals how, in the half-century following 1710, inhabitants of British and Spanis...
ACROSS THE BORDER: COMMODITY FLOW AND MERCHANTS IN SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE James Cusick UNFORGOTTEN TH...
In 1784 Spanish colonists returned to the Florida peninsula after a twenty-year hiatus of British ru...
The twenty-year period of British sovereignty of the Floridas came to an end September 3, 1783, when...
From a Remote Frontier, Part I San Marcos de Apalache, 1763-1769 Mark F. Boyd Spanish Contributions ...
GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research an...
The British colonies in East and West Florida and the Bahamas were frontier outposts. They were not ...
When Thomas Jefferson’s embargo policy brought much of North Atlantic commerce to a halt, world econ...
In his 1984 assessment of the state of historical research, The Transatlantic Economy, Jacob Price...
When Josiah Blakeley, consul of the United States at Santiago de Cuba, wrote these lines to Secretar...
La farina, un bé considerat de primera necessitat per a la població, ens serveix de fil conductor p...
In late June 1791, St. Augustine captain Don Antonio de Alcantara sailed into Havana harbor at the h...
In 1605, Pedro de Ybarra, Governor of Florida, sent a terse note to Fray Benito de Blasco, a mission...
Ten months were required to complete the evacuation of the Spanish population from the St. Augustine...
On his 10,000-acre plantation along the St. Johns River, Francis Philip Fatio had much to claim. Wit...
This dissertation reveals how, in the half-century following 1710, inhabitants of British and Spanis...
ACROSS THE BORDER: COMMODITY FLOW AND MERCHANTS IN SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE James Cusick UNFORGOTTEN TH...
In 1784 Spanish colonists returned to the Florida peninsula after a twenty-year hiatus of British ru...
The twenty-year period of British sovereignty of the Floridas came to an end September 3, 1783, when...
From a Remote Frontier, Part I San Marcos de Apalache, 1763-1769 Mark F. Boyd Spanish Contributions ...
GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research an...
The British colonies in East and West Florida and the Bahamas were frontier outposts. They were not ...
When Thomas Jefferson’s embargo policy brought much of North Atlantic commerce to a halt, world econ...
In his 1984 assessment of the state of historical research, The Transatlantic Economy, Jacob Price...
When Josiah Blakeley, consul of the United States at Santiago de Cuba, wrote these lines to Secretar...
La farina, un bé considerat de primera necessitat per a la població, ens serveix de fil conductor p...