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Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire
African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain’s role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade.
La pàtria dels catalans
«Els assaigs que componen aquest volum són un esforç per entendre el país. La pàtria en el sentit més literal. El lloc on han viscut avis i pares, les generacions passades. El lloc on hem après que el clos domèstic fa part d'una societat particular, forjada per la història. »En rellegir aquests treballs m'adono d'un seguit de grans qüestions que condicionen la meva manera d'acostar-me al passat i el present del país: els límits dels grans projectes ideològics de principis de segle XX, l'esquinçament dels valors col·lectius la vetlla de 1936, la divisió fratricida i les seves terribles i llarges seqüeles; la necessitat i la dificultat de la reconciliació entre germans. Veig...
The Imperial Nation
How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between im...
La nación imperial (1750-1918)
Lo que en su día fueron las naciones que alumbraron los grandes imperios monárquicos siguen dibujando –en buena medida– el mapa de influencias de los poderes atlánticos de hoy, tal vez con la excepción de la siempre diferente, aunque no tanto, España. Tras más de diez años de esfuerzo investigador para recopilar y escribir este libro, Josep M Fradera nos presenta una obra que abarca la historia de los cuatro imperios (Gran Bretaña, Francia, España y Estados Unidos) entre 1750 y 1918. Historia imperial y nacional, e historia de ideas, este ensayo, riguroso y documentado, puede leerse tanto como el mapa del mundo que se dibuja tras las grandes revoluciones en Europa y América (17...
Antes del antiimperialismo
PREMIO ANAGRAMA DE ENSAYO 2022 El tráfico de esclavos y la esclavitud misma –la subyugación de sociedades con larga historia y sólidas instituciones– levantaron críticas desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. Esas impugnaciones nacieron de los ideales igualitarios de la Revolución Francesa y las corrientes religiosas radicales del mundo protestante. A pesar de su arraigo y de los grandes intereses económicos que sostenía, la esclavitud terminó por abolirse en las colonias de Gran Bretaña en 1833, en las de Francia en 1848 y en Estados Unidos en 1865, en lo que constituyó un triunfo moral de los humanitaristas, determinante para la transformación de los grandes imperios de ori...
Endless Empire
"As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power"--Page 4 of cover.
Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments
This collection follows the extraordinary careers of nine colonial subjects who won seats in high-level parliamentary institutions of the imperial powers that ruled over them. Revealing an unexplored dimension of the complex political organisation of modern empires, the essays show how early imperial constitutions allowed for the emergence of these unexpected members of parliament, asks how their presence was possible, and unveils the reactions across metropolitan circles, local communities and the voters who brought them to office. Unearthing the entanglements between political life in metropolitan and non-European societies, it illuminates the ambiguous zones, the margins for negotiation, ...
Connections After Colonialism
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s. In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections after Colonialism, edited by Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette, builds upon recent advances in the history of colonialism and imperialism by studying former colonies and metropoles through the same analytical lens, as part of an attempt to understand the complex connections—political, economic, int...
After the Imperial Turn
From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. These twenty essays, primarily by historians, exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism even as they critically examine the implications of such approaches. While most of the contributors discuss British imperialism and its repercussions, the volume also includes, as counterpoints, e...
