Prepararse para una guerra globalexpediciones de la Marina ante los retos estratégicos de la Monarquía española (1748-1783)

  1. Pablo Ortega del Cerro 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Cádiz
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    Universidad de Cádiz

    Cádiz, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04mxxkb11

Book:
A la sombra de las catedrales: cultura, poder y guerra en la Edad Moderna
  1. Cristina Borreguero Beltrán (coord.)
  2. Óscar R. Melgosa Oter (coord.)
  3. Ángela Pereda López (coord.)
  4. Asunción Retortillo Atienza (coord.)

Publisher: Servicio de Publicaciones e Imagen Institucional ; Universidad de Burgos

ISBN: 978-84-18465-07-9

Year of publication: 2021

Pages: 2173-2192

Congress: Asociación Española de Historia Moderna. Reunión científica (16. 2021. Burgos)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

After the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) it was evident that the conflict scenarios had expanded to different and distant regions of the globe. This new reality required quantitative and qualitative changes in the armed forces, i.e. in their organization, deployment and tactics. The Spanish monarchy was especially sensitive to this fact because its empire had an enormous territorial extension and because its economic and political interests collided with those of other monarchies. Carlos III promoted a very active foreign policy, but perhaps one of the main challenges was to think and to raise the war differently, as a global problem. This work aims to address this issue through the numerous expeditions -scientific, military, political, economic, diplomatic- that the navy carried out around the world. Thus, this paper seeks to study the new challenges of the Spanish monarchy in a global context through these commissions.

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