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NBN Episodes hosted by Dan:
August 7, 2018
American Baroque
The early-modern Atlantic World was a chaotic place over which European empires frequently had little control. In her new book American Baroque: Pearl…
February 6, 2018
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
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'…
November 29, 2017
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait (University of Virginia Press, 2016) is the most recent work from distinguished historian Jack Greene.…
October 30, 2017
The Politics of Reproduction
Katherine Paugh's new book The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition (Oxford University Press, 2017) examine…
August 12, 2017
The English Conquest of Jamaica
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 tra…
January 30, 2017
Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838
Dave Gosse's recent book Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838 (University of the West Indies Press, 2012), looks at a crucial per…
April 18, 2016
Tropics of Haiti
Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Ha…
April 4, 2016
Faithful Bodies
Heather Miyano Kopelson explores how religion, primarily expressed through bodily action, contributed to colonial notions of difference in her recent …
February 22, 2016
Ever Faithful
David Sartorius's recent book Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba (Duke University Press, 2014), examines Cuban socie…
October 27, 2015
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Malick Ghachem's recent book The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2012) takes a long look at Haiti's colonial histor…
September 26, 2015
Final Passages
Gregory E. O'Malley examines a crucial, but almost universally overlooked, aspect of the African slave trade in his new book Final Passages: The Inter…
September 23, 2015
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Jenny Shaw's recent book Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference (University of Georgia Pres…
May 6, 2015
The Body of the Conquistador
Rebecca Earle's recent book The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America (Cambridge University Press, 2012)…
December 23, 2014
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
Charles F. Walker's book The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (Harvard University Press, 2014) charts the rise, fall, and legacy of a massive uprising in colonia…
December 13, 2014
Workshop of Revolution
Lyman Johnson's book Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810 (Duke University Press, 2011) analyzes the economi…
November 13, 2014
The Life Within
Caterina Pizzigoni's book The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650-1800 (Stanford University Press, 2012) provides a …