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Caribbean Studies August 7, 2018

American Baroque

Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700

Molly Warsh

Hosted by Dan Livesay
The early-modern Atlantic World was a chaotic place over which European empires frequently had little control. In her new book American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700 (University …
Caribbean Studies February 6, 2018

Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism

Marlene Daut

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In Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, 2017), Marlene Daut helps to resurrect the life and writings of one of Haiti's most influential thinkers. Baron …
Caribbean Studies November 29, 2017

Settler Jamaica in the 1750s

A Social Portrait

Jack P. Greene

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Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait (University of Virginia Press, 2016) is the most recent work from distinguished historian Jack Greene. Using a treasure trove of records from …
Caribbean Studies October 30, 2017

The Politics of Reproduction

Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition

Katherine Paugh

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Katherine Paugh's new book The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition (Oxford University Press, 2017) examines the crucial role that reproduction took in the …
Caribbean Studies August 12, 2017

The English Conquest of Jamaica

Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire

Carla Pestana

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Carla Pestana's new book The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire (Harvard University Press, 2017) is a rousing look at a transformative moment in Caribbean history. Pestana …
Caribbean Studies January 30, 2017

Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838

Dave Gosse

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Dave Gosse's recent book Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838 (University of the West Indies Press, 2012), looks at a crucial period in Jamaican history. The time between the …
Caribbean Studies April 18, 2016

Tropics of Haiti

Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865

Marlene Daut

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Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World …
Caribbean Studies April 4, 2016

Faithful Bodies

Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

Heather Miyano Kopelson

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Heather Miyano Kopelson explores how religion, primarily expressed through bodily action, contributed to colonial notions of difference in her recent book Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan …
Caribbean Studies February 22, 2016

Ever Faithful

Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba

David Sartorius

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David Sartorius's recent book Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba (Duke University Press, 2014), examines Cuban society in the nineteenth century, and the islanders' …
Caribbean Studies October 27, 2015

The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution

Malick Ghachem

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Malick Ghachem's recent book The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2012) takes a long look at Haiti's colonial history on the legal questions around slavery. In …
Latin American Studies September 26, 2015

Final Passages

The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Gregory E. O'Malley

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Gregory E. O'Malley examines a crucial, but almost universally overlooked, aspect of the African slave trade in his new book Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-180 …
Caribbean Studies September 23, 2015

Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean

Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference

Jenny Shaw

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Jenny Shaw's recent book Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference (University of Georgia Press, 2013) analyzes how social, religious, and ethnic categories …
Latin American Studies May 6, 2015

The Body of the Conquistador

Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America

Rebecca Earle

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Rebecca Earle's recent book The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America (Cambridge University Press, 2012) investigates the importance of food during the first …
Latin American Studies December 23, 2014

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

Charles F. Walker

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Charles F. Walker's book The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (Harvard University Press, 2014) charts the rise, fall, and legacy of a massive uprising in colonial Peru. Indigenous societies in the Andes …
Latin American Studies December 13, 2014

Workshop of Revolution

Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810

Lyman Johnson

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Lyman Johnson's book Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810 (Duke University Press, 2011) analyzes the economic, political, and social lives of working people in Argentina's …
Latin American Studies November 13, 2014

The Life Within

Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800

Caterina Pizzigoni

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Caterina Pizzigoni's book The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800 (Stanford University Press, 2012) provides a close examination of indigenous society in central Mexico. Analyzing …