Death by Effigy

Luis R Corteguera

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• On July 21, 1578, the Mexican town of Tecamachalco awoke to news of a scandal. A doll-like effigy hung from the door of the town's church. Its two-fac... Lees meer

Captives of Conquest

Erin Woodruff Stone

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to exami... Lees meer

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society

Aviva Ben-Ur

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social... Lees meer

The Plantation Machine

Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantat... Lees meer

Amsterdam's Atlantic

Michiel Van Groesen

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• In 1624 the Dutch West India Company established the colony of Brazil. Only thirty years later, the Dutch Republic handed over the colony to Portugal,... Lees meer

The Age of Intoxication

Benjamin Breen

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tob... Lees meer

Intimate Bonds

Jennifer L Palmer

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the Fr... Lees meer

The Plantation Machine

Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantat... Lees meer

Slaves and Englishmen

Michael Guasco

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was e... Lees meer

Collecting Across Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and a... Lees meer

A New World of Labor

Simon P Newman

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in ... Lees meer

A New World of Labor

Simon P Newman

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in ... Lees meer

African Kings and Black Slaves

Herman L Bennett

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Af... Lees meer

African Kings and Black Slaves

Herman L Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Af... Lees meer

No Wood, No Kingdom

Keith Pluymers

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions... Lees meer

The Bishop's Utopia

Emily Berquist Soule

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• In December 1788, in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo, fifty-one-year-old Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón stood surrounded by tw... Lees meer

Intimate Bonds

Jennifer L Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the Fr... Lees meer

Biography and the Black Atlantic

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• In Biography and the Black Atlantic , leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- a... Lees meer

The Opened Letter

Lindsay O'Neill

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became in... Lees meer

Translating Nature

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded a... Lees meer

The Age of Intoxication

Benjamin Breen

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tob... Lees meer

The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafte... Lees meer

Undercurrents of Power

Kevin Dawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near l... Lees meer

Forbidden Passages

Karoline P Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Americas
• During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish authorities restricted emigration to the Americas to those who could prove they had been Catho... Lees meer