The Early Modern Americas
Volumes in the series explore neglected aspects of early modern history in the western hemisphere. Interdisciplinary in character, and with a special emphasis on the Atlantic World from 1450 to 1850, the series is published in partnership with the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
Series Editor:
Peter C. Mancall
Professor of History and Anthropology, University of Southern California, and Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor
rlockhar@upenn.edu
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Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825749
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Kristie Patricia...
Natural Designs
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
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...
Beyond 1619
The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825015
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery’s origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States...
The Virginia Venture
American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512822991
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of the first permanent English colony in America:...
Intimate Bonds
Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225211
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery,...
The Age of Intoxication
Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224986
Pub Date: July 2021
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the...
Undercurrents of Power
Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224931
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean. In those waterways,...
Captives of Conquest
Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812253108
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean. Erin Woodruff Stone shows that the indigenous population of the region did not...
No Wood, No Kingdom
Political Ecology in the English Atlantic
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812253078
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions, and pamphlets, in which they debated the severity...
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812224726
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
212 Pages
In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with...
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825749
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Natural Designs
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824568
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Beyond 1619
The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825015
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
The Virginia Venture
American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512822991
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Intimate Bonds
Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225211
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
The Age of Intoxication
Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224986
Pub Date: July 2021
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Undercurrents of Power
Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224931
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Captives of Conquest
Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812253108
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
No Wood, No Kingdom
Political Ecology in the English Atlantic
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812253078
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812224726
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
212 Pages