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  • Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World

    by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study.Beginning with the roots of African slavery in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian empires, this work explores central issues, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Connections after Colonialism

    Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

    by Matthew Brown, Will Fowler, Josep M. Fradera, Carrie Gibson, Brian Roger Hamnett, Maurizio Isabella, Iona Macintyre, Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Gabriel Paquette0, David Rock3, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara4, Jay Sexton5, Reuben Zahler6 ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • On Captivity

    A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898

    by Manuel Ciges Aparicio ...
    Translated by Dolores J. Walker ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    A rare and unfiltered witness to Spain’s colonial collapse—Ciges Aparicio’s prison memoir exposes the political, human, and moral stakes of the Cuban War of Independence.Ciges enlisted in the Spanish army in 1893 at the age of twenty. He served in Africa and then in Cuba, where he opposed Spanish General Valeriano Weyler’s policies in Cuba as well as the war itself. Ciges soon found himself ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire

    Edited by Josep M. Fradera, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara ...
    Series Book 9 - European Expansion & Global Interaction
    African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain’s role as a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • El Norte

    The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

    by Carrie Gibson ...
    A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820

    by John K. Thornton ...
    A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico

    From Chinos to Indians

    by Tatiana Seijas ...
    Series Book 100 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain's colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Seeds of Insurrection

    Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848

    by Manuel Barcia ...
    On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient slaves. Yet this makeshift parade never evolved into the violent rebellion the villagers expected. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson, III ...
    This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade

    Edited by James Sidbury, Matt D. Childs, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though Africans continued to be exchanged as chattel, urban frontiers allowed a number of enslaved blacks to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Freedom by a Thread

    The History of Quilombos in Brazil

    Edited by Flavio Dos Santos Gomes, Joao Jose Reis ...
    Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery penetrated every ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Conceiving Freedom

    Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

    by Camillia Cowling ...
    In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant ... Read more

    $28.99 USD