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  • From Shipmates to Soldiers

    Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata

    by Alex Borucki ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence. The author shows how the enslaved Africans ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations

    Commerce, Society, and Politics

    Edited by Fabrício Prado, Viviana L. Grieco, Alex Borucki ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited volume brings together essays that examine recent scholarship on the history of the Rio de la Plata region (present-day Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil) from the colonial period to the nineteenth century. It illustrates new themes and historical methods that have transformed the historiography of Rio de la Plata, including the use of new sources, digital methodologies ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • From the Galleons to the Highlands

    Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas

    Edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, David Wheat ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies’ previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade. Spanish America received African captives not only directly via the transatlantic slave trade but also from slave markets in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Slavery in Brazil

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their ... Read more

    $31.99 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

    $28.69 USD

  • Conflicts and Conspiracies

    Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he ... Read more

    $60.99 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

    $14.29 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World

    Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade

    by Roquinaldo Ferreira ...
    Series Book 121 - African Studies
    This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • "We Are Now the True Spaniards"

    Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824

    by Jaime E. Rodriguez O. ...
    This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico

    Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706

    by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva ...
    Series Book 109 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico (viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of slavery on Africans, Asians, and their families. He analyzes the experiences of these slaves in four distinct urban settings: the marketplace, the convent, the textile mill, and the elite residence. In so doing, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution

    Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825

    by Marcela Echeverri ...
    Series Book 102 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Royalist Indians and slaves in the northern Andes engaged with the ideas of the Age of Revolution (1780–1825), such as citizenship and freedom. Although generally ignored in recent revolution-centered versions of the Latin American independence processes, their story is an essential part of the history of the period. In Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution, Marcela Echeverri draws a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810

    by Robert W. Patch ...
    The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch's even-handed study of the repartimiento**de mercancías—the commercial dealings between regional magistrates and the people under their jurisdiction*—*reveals the inner workings ... Read more

    $26.69 USD