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  • Assembling the Tropics

    Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450–1700

    by Hugh Cagle ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional accounts of the Scientific Revolution. The history of 'the tropics' is the story of science in Europe's ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Women of the Iberian Atlantic

    by Ida Altman, Ras Michael Brown, Matt Childs, Carla Gerona, Allyson Poska, Nuria Salazar Simarro, Lisa Vollendorf, Timothy Walker, Hugh Cagle ...
    The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt D. Childs, and Allyson M. Poska utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class, family, health, and religious practices in the Atlantic basin. Unlike previous scholarship, which ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • The Hidden History of Capoeira

    A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance

    by Maya Talmon-Chvaicer ...
    Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late eighteenth century, capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking on a multiplicity of meanings for those who participate in it and for the societies in which it is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

  • Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

    by James H. Sweet ...
    Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time — from Africa to South America to Europe — addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Beyond Slavery

    The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Darién J. Davis ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Shaky Colonialism

    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Children of Facundo

    Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853-1870)

    by Ariel de la Fuente ...
    In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture, and politics in the Argentine interior—where more than 50 percent of the population lived at the time—the book departs from the predominant Buenos ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cuba's Racial Crucible

    The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750–2000

    by Karen Y. Morrison ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today.Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these ... Read more

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  • 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

    $31.49 USD