Edicion, estudio y notas de "Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias, y estado presente de ellas" (1693) de Drancisco de Seyxas y Lovera
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Title
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Edicion, estudio y notas de "Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias, y estado presente de ellas" (1693) de Drancisco de Seyxas y Lovera
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:d4816ae9ae3c:10632
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identifier
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10787
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Creator
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McCarl, Clayton,
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Contributor
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Isaias Lerner
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Date
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2010
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Latin American studies | Latin American history | Asian history | Colonial Latin America | Contraband | Francisco de Seijas y Lobera | Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera | Piracy | Spain
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Abstract
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Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias, y estado presente de ellas (1693) by Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera (c.1646-c.1705) is a singular document, both among Hispanic and Northern European letters of the era. Fusing historiographical, political and autobiographical discourse, the text traces the audacious exploits of foreigners throughout Spain's overseas empire. Seyxas spent several decades at sea as a merchant and privateer, and, in writing Piratas y contrabandistas, draws upon these experiences, as well as upon numerous foreign books discovered during his travels. He completed his treatise in New Spain, where he had arrived shortly before to assume the post of alcalde mayor of Tacuba. Seyxas was to experience little success in the New World, however, falling out almost immediately with the viceroy, the Conde de Galve, and consequently spending most of his official tenure in prison. Piratas y contrabandistas was never published, likely remaining behind when the author finally fled New Spain, and has remained unknown to scholars for over 300 years. This edition is based upon a manuscript copy discovered in 2007. The project seeks to transmit this unique text, situating it within the history of piracy and Iberian imperial decline, examining the author's use of Spanish, French, Dutch and English written sources, and analyzing the intersections between Piratas y contrabandistas and Seyxas' other printed and manuscript books. This edition also attempts to clarify various aspects of the author's complex biography, drawing upon previously unexamined archival materials, and incorporates a series of map images from Taboas geraes de toda a navegacao (1630) by Joao Teixeira Albernaz, an atlas once in the author's possession and which bears a close relationship to Piratas y contrabandistas..
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Hispanic & Luso Brazilian Literatures & Languages
