Race and Transatlantic Identities provides a rich overview of the complex relationship between the construction of race and transatlantic identity as expressed in a variety of cultural forms, refracted through different disciplinary and critical perspectives, and manifested at different historical moments. Spanning a period from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributions provide a panorama of the wealth and variety of contemporary approaches to grappling with notions of race in a transatlantic context, raising questions about the permanence and fixity of racial boundaries. The volume, which focuses on the cultural sites where individuals construct and express their racial identities in the context of those boundaries, also explores strategies through which those boundaries are defined and redefined. The collection conducts this inquiry by juxtaposing essays on literature, history, visual arts, material culture, music, and dance in ways that encourage the reader to engage with concepts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The articles in this book were originally published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
Examines how the Portuguese Madeira wine trade helped shape transcontinental trade in colonial America, and subsequently changed economic and social structures in American society.
Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it.
Este libro, obra de nueve reputados especialistas internacionales en el Mediterráneo y en el “Atlántico mediterráneo” de la Temprana Edad Moderna, tiene un doble objetivo: continuar dialogando con la obra de Fernand Braudel, ...
The essays presented take the study of piracy, which can eaisly lapse into rousing, romanticized stories, to new heights of rigor and insight. The Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of pirates as pop culture icons.
This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject"--
Andalucía Es cierto , como se ha venido afirmando , que Andalucía perdió el protagonismo que tenía en el siglo XVI en ... 31 R. MÁRQUEZ MACÍAS , Historias de América : la emigración española en tinta y papel , Huelva , 1995 , pp .
Fascinating, informative, and deeply researched, The Smell of Slavery exposes that concerns with pungency within the Western self were emitted outward upon the freshly dug outhouse of the mass slave grave called the Atlantic World.
Here Gregory P. Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution. More than a fight to preserve the Union and end slavery, the conflict refashioned a nation, in part by remaking its Constitution.
Fernández y González , F. Estado social y político de los mudéjares de Castilla , considerados en sí mismos y respecto de la civilización española . Madrid : Impr . á cargo de J. Muñoz , 1866 . Feros , Antonio . Speaking of Spain .
This is a sourcebook on the "revolutionary Atlantic," a term historians increasingly use to describe the way the many revolutions from 1776 (USA) to 1826 (end of the wars of independence in Latin America) can be viewed as part of a ...