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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
Hosted by
Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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
Hosted by
Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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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Dan Livesay
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
Hosted by
Dan Livesay
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 …
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