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  • Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba

    Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828

    by Paul Niell ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850

    Edited by Luis J. Gordo Peláez, Paul B. Niell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architectural History
    This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits, and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1500 to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • A Cold Welcome

    The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

    by Sam White ...
    Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman–History Today Prize Finalist“Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.”—Times Literary SupplementWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts ... Read more

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  • What if Latin America Ruled the World?

    How the South Will Take the North Through the 21st Century

    by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ...
    For too many of us, Latin America exists "below the fold," an echobarely heard beyond the roar of U.S. economics, politics, and culture;the source of little more than dance steps, mesmerizing soccer, spicyfood, and questionable politics.But Latin America has been a vital part of the global community sincethe seventeenth century, when the Spanish silver peso became theworld's first global currency ... Read more

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  • Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800

    by John Thornton ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military ... Read more

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  • The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

    by Susanna B. Hecht ...
    A "compelling and elegantly written" history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, ... Read more

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  • Africans and Native Americans

    The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples

    by Jack D. Forbes ...
    Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo--terms ... Read more

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  • Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas

    by Alvin Thompson ...
    This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders. ... Read more

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  • The Atlantic in World History

    by Karen Ordahl Kupperman ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives of people everywhere. American foods enriched their diets. Furs, precious metals, dyes, and many other products underwrote new luxury trades, and tobacco became the first consumer craze as the price ... Read more

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  • Tropical Babylons

    Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

    Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz ...
    The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called "sugar revolution." The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a ... Read more

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