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Iberian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Iberia about their new books
November 5, 2024
A Third Path
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” bet…
October 23, 2024
The Librarian's Atlas
In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries …
October 20, 2024
Matzah and Flour
From Hélène Jawhara Piñer, Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winning author of Sephardi: Cooking the History, comes a collection of 125 meticulously craft…
October 19, 2024
Hispano Bastion
In Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press, 2023), historian Dr. Michael J. Alar…
October 11, 2024
Neutrality and Collaboration in South China
The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empir…
October 7, 2024
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…
September 26, 2024
A New Antiquity
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A N…
September 6, 2024
Unorthodox Kin
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" ident…
September 5, 2024
I am pleased to inform the director
Today I talked to Duncan Simpson about his book Tenho o prazer de informar o senhor director: cartas de portugueses à PIDE (1958-1968) ("I am please…
September 3, 2024
Rubens in Repeat
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish…
August 23, 2024
Twist in the Tail
A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher Beckman takes readers on a tantalising voyage throu…
August 18, 2024
Slave Trade and Abolition
Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transat…
August 16, 2024
Queer Obscenity
Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain (Stanford University Press, 2024) takes us inside the archive to demonstrate how the incongruiti…
August 8, 2024
Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves
Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the s…
August 1, 2024
Spice
The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. T…
July 30, 2024
Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain
In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated G…
July 28, 2024
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in th…
July 17, 2024
The Politics of Emotion
The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Nuria Silleras-Fernandez…
July 16, 2024
The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain
The interview featured an in-depth dialogue about The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain (Vernon Press, 2022), a bilingual collection that examines…
July 15, 2024
A Fistful of Shells
All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Ris…