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Bartolomé De Las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights
A Brief History with Documents
Av Lawrence A. Clayton, David M. Lantigua
Häftad, 2020
350 kr
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An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of BartolomÉ de las Casas. With the exception of Christopher Columbus, BartolomÉ de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. He is remembered principally as the author of the Black Legend, as well as …
Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Av Scott Eastman, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
Inbunden, 2015
756 kr
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In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and …
Great Fear
Luís De onís and the Shadow War Against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812
Inbunden, 2019
583 kr
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An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion.A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812 explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when Spain …
Taxing Blackness
Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
Inbunden, 2019
641 kr
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A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans.During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. …
Mastering the Law
Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire
Inbunden, 2020
583 kr
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Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America.Atlantic slavery can be overwhelming in its immensity and brutality, as it involved more than 15 million souls forcibly displaced by European imperialism and …
In the Blood of Our Brothers
Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800-1870
Inbunden, 2021
641 kr
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Details the abolition of the slave trade in the Atlantic World to the 1860s.Throughout the nineteenth century, very few people in Spain campaigned to stop the slave trade and did even less to abolish slavery. Even when some supported abolition, the reasons that moved them were not always …
This Incurable Evil
Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687
Inbunden, 2023
1332 kr
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Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime familiesThe history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. In Mapuche Resistance to Spanish …
Foundations of Colonial Rule
Rebuilding Lima After the Earthquake of 1687
Inbunden, 2027
1182 kr
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Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
Häftad, 2014
397 kr
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A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a century and a half and eventually converged to engender, promote, and facilitate the migration of southern elites to Brazil …
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba
A Soldier in the Spanish Army During the Separatist War, 1895–1898
Av Josep Conangla, Joaquín Roy
Häftad, 2017
408 kr
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Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 is a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un soldado del ejército español en la guerra separatista (1895–1898) by Josep Conangla. The English edition is based on the Spanish version …
Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
Häftad, 2021
338 kr
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Explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independenceIn The Mark of Rebels Barry Robinson offers a new look at Mexican Independence from the …
This Incurable Evil
Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598-1687
Häftad, 2023
455 kr
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Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. In Mapuche Resistance to Spanish …
Emperor's Last Campaign
A Napoleonic Empire in America
Häftad, 2023
455 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Literary Award, sponsored by the International Napoleonic Society/La Societe Napoleonienne Internationale of Montreal, Quebec's Literary CommitteeNapoleon’s last campaign didn’t end at Waterloo. After that fateful day on June 1815, hundreds if not thousands of veterans of …
Connections After Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Av Matthew Brown, Gabriel Paquette
Häftad, 2024
397 kr
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Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s. In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the …
Taxing Blackness
Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
Häftad, 2025
338 kr
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A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to AfromexicansDuring the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. …
Reborn in America
French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815-1865
Av Eric Saugera
Inbunden, 2011
468 kr
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Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804
Inbunden, 2011
583 kr
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To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people - nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the “Pearl of the Antilles,” France's most valuable overseas colony, the largest exporter of tropical …
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718–1783
Inbunden, 2014
583 kr
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In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.Great Britain’s forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain’s …
Colonizing Paradise
Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
Inbunden, 2015
641 kr
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In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Myriad fine degrees of ambivalence separated extreme views of the region as an idyllic archipelago or a nest …
Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
Inbunden, 2016
583 kr
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In The Mark of Rebels Barry Robinson offers a new look at Mexican Independence from the perspective of an indigenous population caught in the heart of the struggle. During the conquest and settlement of Mexico’s Western Sierra Madre, Spain’s indigenous allies constructed an indio fronterizo …
