Global Change: Carlo Vidua and the Age of Revolutions in the Hispanic World

The archive of global history left to us in Piedmont by the traveler Carlo Vidua –whose intention was to use it to write the story of the great transformations of his epoch– takes us on a journey between continents like an Ariadne's thread in the Hispanic world. Looking in particular at the poles of Mexico City and Manila, we will begin to explore with Vidua forgotten aspects of the reconfiguration of hegemonies and trade, between East and West, reciprocal influences in revolutions, the birth of new identities, unprecedented ways of circulating knowledge. We will look at independent Latin America as a nerve center of nineteenth-century globalisation, and in the old and new channels connecting continents and cultures we will find some of the multilateral origins of modernity