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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
One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish CaribbeanCaptives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish...
An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
Lindsay O'Neill
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827200
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slaveryIn 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo,...
Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chelsea Berry
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826494
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic worldBy the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed...
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...
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...
Edited by Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner and Jesse Cromwell
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...
American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660
Misha Ewen
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:...
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,...
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...
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,...
