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  • Questions for America

    2024 and Beyond

    by Jack Reardon, David Wheat ...
    To solve its multiple challenges post-2024, America must act with intelligence and wisdom, which can only come from an active and well-informed citizenry. The issues that confront us post-2024 are profound: climate change, inequality, artificial intelligence, an unstable geopolitical global order, existential threats from unfriendly nations, just to name a few. A democracy needs an educated ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Feedback Economics

    Economic Modeling with System Dynamics

    Edited by Robert Y. Cavana, Brian C. Dangerfield, Oleg V. Pavlov, Michael J. Radzicki, I. David Wheat ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective. By introducing system dynamics methods (including qualitative and quantitative techniques) and computer simulation models, the respective contributions apply feedback analysis and dynamic simulation modeling to important local, national, and global economics issues and concerns. Topics covered include: an ... Read more

    $179.09 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

  • Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

    by David Wheat ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century

    Edited by Ida Altman, David Wheat ...
    The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies.In the sixteenth century no part of the Americas was more diverse; international; or as closely tied to Spain ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • 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

    $36.89 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

  • Moctezuma's Children

    Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520–1700

    by Donald E. Chipman ...
    Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish law and customs to maintain and enhance their status ... Read more

    $23.79 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

  • 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

  • Indigenous Agency in the Amazon

    The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932

    by Gary Van Valen ...
    The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted to Catholicism, and adapted their traditional lifestyle to the conventions of mission life. Nearly two hundred years later they faced two new challenges: liberalism and the rubber boom. White authorities ... Read more

    $25.19 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