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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba
A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898
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.
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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