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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
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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