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Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition
A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1839
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country’s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark on the region, the vibrant...
Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves
Piracy and Personhood in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of...
by Franklin J. Franco
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros, los mulatos y la nación dominicana by esteemed Dominican scholar Franklin J. Franco. Published in 1969, this book was the first systematic work on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican...
Newfoundland and Labrador
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history of one of North America's most distinct and beautiful regions. The site of the first European settlement by Vikings one...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies...
Hemispheric Indigeneities
Native Identity and Agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s...
The Guaraní and Their Missions
A Socioeconomic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The thirty Guaraní missions of the Río de la Plata were the largest and most prosperous of all the Catholic missions established throughout the frontier regions of the Americas to convert, acculturate, and incorporate indigenous peoples and their lands into the Spanish and Portuguese empires. But...
Making a New World
Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Making a New World is a major rethinking of the role of the Americas in early world trade, the rise of capitalism, and the conflicts that reconfigured global power around 1800. At its center is the Bajío, a fertile basin extending across the modern-day Mexican states of Guanajuato and Querétaro,...
New World Cities
Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody:...
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, desperate to gain New Spain’s silver. He broke Spain’s monarchy, setting off a summer of ferment in Mexico City. People took...
Caribbean New Orleans
Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean...
Mr. America
The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health,...
The Matter of Empire
Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Matter of Empire examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the material exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Centered on Potosi, Bolivia, Orlando Bentancor’s original study ties the colonizers’ attempts...
Isles of Noise
Sonic Media in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was "wired" earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Americas. Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica acquired radio and broadcasting in the early stages of the global expansion...