Project description
Global trade’s impact in the Age of Revolutions
Modernity emerged from the unintended consequences of strategic interventions during the power struggles among Atlantic empires in the Age of Revolutions. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the UNWANTED project will examine these unforeseen outcomes of great power interventions, using historical case studies to inform contemporary policy and strategy. Focusing on Irish trans-imperial agents, the project will explore how global trade with Latin America, and the shifting flows of silver and gold, reshaped Britain’s economic position in Europe and beyond. It will show how the revolution in Spanish America provided critical resources that helped liberate Spain from French occupation, funded the fight against Napoleon, and ultimately contributed to the collapse of old empires. These developments helped accelerate the transition to modern economies.
Objective
The EU is facing difficulties in her attempt to promote interdependence and peace in a context of geopolitical collision. Indirect intervention in external areas has produced unwanted effects. My research aims to investigate the unplanned consequences of external interventions by great powers using historical examples to provide insights for contemporary strategies. Modernity was built upon unplanned effects of strategic interference during the final clash among Atlantic empires, in the global Age of Revolutions. Intrusion in the Hispanic world allowed Britain to speculate on American coin and bullion to finance its Foreign Aid to Spain and Europe against Napoleon. By following Irish trans-imperial agents managing these speculations, the project looks at how global trade involving Latin America and changes in silver and gold flows transformed Britain's economic role with implications in Europe and worldwide. It links these financial initiatives to the best possible business in a revolutionary context, the arms trade. For the first time it shows how revolution in Spanish America ended up providing economic means to liberate Spain from French occupation through British aid and then to finance the struggle of other European nations against Napoleon, with the crash of the old imperial systems as an unwanted effect. This greatly accelerated the rush towards modern economy and empires. Through rigorous archival evidence this ambitious project aspires to kindle a deep-seated awareness of the past and present mechanisms and possible management of the unplanned revolutionary impact of strategic intrusion. Investigation in Spain(UPO) Mexico(UNAM) and the UK(UCL) and DEC activities like the creation of a DoNoSQL database, OA publications(3), conferences(3), syllabus, political brief, videos, cooperation between historians and political scientists(Side-NET) will help turn the tide of the present erosion of rule-based international relations as an unwanted effect of interference
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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41013 Sevilla
Spain
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