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The Emperor's Last Campaign
Winner of the 2009 Literary Award, sponsored by the International Napoleonic Society/La Societe Napoleonienne Internationale of Montreal, Quebec's Literary CommitteeNapoleon’s last …
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth …
A Great Fear
An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion.A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812 …
Colonizing Paradise
In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the …
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a …
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 is a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un soldado del …
This Incurable Evil
Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families The …
Taxing Blackness
A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans.During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of …
In the Blood of Our Brothers
Details the abolition of the slave trade in the Atlantic World to the 1860s.Throughout the nineteenth century, very few people in Spain campaigned to stop the slave trade and did …
Mastering the Law
Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America. Atlantic slavery can be overwhelming in …
Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights
An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of BartolomÉ de las Casas. With the exception of Christopher Columbus, BartolomÉ de las Casas is arguably …
The Mark of Rebels
Explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the …