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Connections after Colonialism

Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

University of Alabama Press

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.

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This Incurable Evil

Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687

University of Alabama Press

Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families
 

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The Mark of Rebels

Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence

University of Alabama Press

Explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independence

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In the Blood of Our Brothers

Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870

University of Alabama Press

Details the abolition of the slave trade in the Atlantic World to the 1860s
 

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Mastering the Law

Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire

University of Alabama Press

Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America

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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights

A Brief History with Documents

University of Alabama Press

An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas

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Taxing Blackness

Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain

University of Alabama Press

A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans

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A Great Fear

Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812

University of Alabama Press

An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion

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Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898

Translated by Dolores J. Walker; By Josep Conangla; Edited by Joaquín Roy
University of Alabama Press

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba’s second War of Independence.

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Colonizing Paradise

Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies

University of Alabama Press

Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean

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