Biographies and History

LA PRIMERA GLOBALIZACIÓN. AMÉRICA Y LOS OCÉANOS. RUTAS DE AVENTURA Y CIENCIA (DEL SIGLO XVI AL XVIII)

Fundación Banco Santander together with the Fundación Cultural de la Nobleza Española organises this annual cycle of conferences that explores some of the most important events in our history.

Entitled ‘América y los océanos. Siglo xviii’, Carmen Iglesias, Carmen Sanz, Miguel Luque and José Antonio Gurpegui expounded on the commercial, political and strategic importance of North and Latin American for international relations of the time. Among the topics dealt with were the struggle of the different nations to control Atlantic trade, the independence of the United States of America and the colonising role played by Junípero Serra and Gaspar de Portolá.

As health conditions advised against holding an in-person event, this 2021 edition followed the online format inaugurated the year before owing to the declaration of the pandemic. The conference videos are still available to the general public on the foundation website and its YouTube channel.