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The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Edited by Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
University of Alabama Press
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World is a collection of original essays that offer insights into how the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 shaped and influenced the political culture of Iberian America.
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
University of Alabama Press
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.
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
University of Alabama Press
Examines the qualitative nature of capitalism’s processes through the lens of social networks
Heaven's Soldiers
Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida
By Frank Marotti; Introduction by Frank Marotti
University of Alabama Press
Heaven’s Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.
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.
On Captivity
A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898
By Manuel Ciges Aparicio; Translated by Dolores J. Walker; Foreword by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara; Edited by Dolores J. Walker; Introduction by Dolores J. Walker
University of Alabama Press
On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98).
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoléon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801–1804
University of Alabama Press
A deeply researched and definitive account of the climactic battle at the end of the Haitian Revolution
José de Bustamante and Central American Independence
Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis
University of Alabama Press
The first full-length study of a significant figure of the Spanish Enlightenment
Reborn in America
French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815-1865
By Eric Saugera; Translated by Madeleine Velguth
University of Alabama Press
The rich detail presented in this story adds a great deal to what we know of ante-bellum Alabama and the international intrigues of the decades after Napoleon’s final defeat, and sheds light as well on the other less glamorous refugees, planters fleeing from the revolution in Haiti, whose interest was much more purely agricultural, and whose lasting influence on the region was far more durable.
The Emperor's Last Campaign
A Napoleonic Empire in America
University of Alabama Press
The fascinating story of the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power
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