Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Edited by Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney
Contributions by Edward G. Gray, Christian J. Koot, Alexander Zukas, John Morton, Paul Musselwhite, Kim Gruenwald, Karen Rann, Charles W. A. Prior, Chad McCutchen, Jennifer Monroe McCutchen, Harvey Amani Whitfield, Sarah Chute and Scott Truett
Freedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants crafted their visions of liberation by thinking comparatively about the uneven spread of abolition across the Atlantic world.
Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean. Erin Woodruff Stone shows how upwards of 250,000 people were removed through slavery, a lucrative business that formed the foundation of economic, legal, and religious policies in the Spanish colonies.
Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chelsea Berry
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826494
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Poisoned Relations illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world. Examining more than five hundred investigations and trials in British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas, she brings historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas.
In The Driver’s Story, Randy M. Browne illuminates the harrowing struggles of the enslaved men—and women—who were tasked with supervising and punishing other enslaved laborers. Compelling and unsettling, the book reveals that drivers were at the center of enslaved people’s working lives, social relationships, and struggles against slavery.
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Elizabeth Gansen
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824568
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and visual and textual analysis, Elizabeth Gansen explores how Oviedo, in his writings, brought the European Renaissance to bear on his understanding of New World nature.
English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–1715
April Lee Hatfield
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824018
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Boundaries of Belonging shows how, in an early modern Caribbean of overlapping and contested borders, a mobile and diverse population that included pirates, smugglers, freedom seekers, and religious refugees, influenced theories of imperial belonging and interpolity law.
