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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.

Disease, Resistance, and Lies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Disease, Resistance, and Lies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: LSU Press

In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a result of an increased population and concurrent economic expansion, the United States widened its trade relationship with Cuba and Brazil, importing half of Brazil's coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba's total exports by 1877. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning markets on the Atlantic slave trade between these countries from 1808 -- when the U.S. government outla...

Disease, Resistance, and Lies
  • Language: en

Disease, Resistance, and Lies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-09
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  • Publisher: LSU Press

In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a result of an increased population and concurrent economic expansion, the United States widened its trade relationship with Cuba and Brazil, importing half of Brazil's coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba's total exports by 1877. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning markets on the Atlantic slave trade between these countries from 1808 -- when the U.S. government outla...

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba

"Examines the extent to which a series of African-led plots and armed movements that took place in western Cuba and Bahia between 1807 and 1844 were the result--or a continauation--of events that had occurred in and around the Yoruba and Hausa kingdoms in the same period."--Book jacket.

The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867

An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade’s impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish primary documents—as well as English-language material—to shed new light on the changing behavior of slave traders and their networks, particularly in Brazil and Cuba. Slavery in these nations, as Marques shows, contributed to the mounting tensions that would ultimately lead to the U.S. Civil War. Taking a truly Atlantic perspective, Marques outlines the multiple forms of U.S. involvement in this traffic amid various legislation and shifting international relations, exploring the global processes that shaped the history of this participation.

Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file clerks and movie stars, wealthy world travelers and ordinary people whose adventures were confined to a bar in the middle of town. The Mexicans we meet in these essays lived out their identities through extraordinary events--committing terrible crimes, writing world-famous songs, and ruling the nation--but also in everyday activities like falling in love, raising families, getting dressed, and going to the movies. Thus, these essays in the history of masculinity connect the major topics of Mexican political history since 1880 to the history of daily life.

Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

These essays by noted scholars place Latin America's Jews squarely within the context of both Latin American and ethnic studies, a significant departure from traditional approaches that have treated Latin American Jewry as a subset of Jewish Studies.

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. Alexander Solzhenitsyn In this penetrating and provocative work, Jonas E. Alexis challenges common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism and provides compelling evidence from history and theology that demonstrates the extent to which modern Judaism has been defined by the Pharisaic and Rabbinic schools of thought. As Alexis meticulously documents, there has been a constant struggle between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism since the time of Christ, a struggle that will define the destiny of the West. Islam, according to Christianity, is a hi...

True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico

This edited volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of social deviance from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.