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  • Spanish New Orleans

    An Imperial City on the American Periphery, 1766–1803

    John Eugene Rodriguez’s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its North American empire. Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence a decade before the overthrow of its Bourbon Spanish rulers in 1808. His work questions that of ... Leer más

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Leer más

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  • El Norte

    The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States

    de Paul Ortiz ...
    Series Libro 4 - ReVisioning History
    An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of ... Leer más

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  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the ... Leer más

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  • More Than Chattel

    Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to ... Leer más

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  • The Accidental City

    Improvising New Orleans

    This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to ... Leer más

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  • The Strange Career of William Ellis

    The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

    de Karl Jacoby ...
    **Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal**A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the ... Leer más

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  • Maroon Societies

    Rebel Slave Communities in the America

    de Richard Price ...
    Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, ... Leer más

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  • South to Freedom

    Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

    A “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to MexicoThe Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, ... Leer más

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  • Seeds of Empire

    Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but ... Leer más

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  • The Strange History of the American Quadroon

    Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

    de Emily Clark ...
    Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free ... Leer más

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