...Pablo F. Gómez Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias . By von Germeten Nicole . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 304 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press...

...David Sowell 105 días: El sitio de Pablo Morillo a Cartagena de Indias . By Segovia Rodolfo . Bogotá : El Áncora Editores , 2013 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 323 pp. Paper . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The Spanish...

...Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Cartagena de Indias y la región histórica del Caribe,1580–1640. By antonino vidal ortega. Seville: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Universidad de Sevilla /Diputación de Sevilla, 2002. Illustrations. Maps. Figure. Bibliography. 323 pp. Paper...

...Nicholas P. Cushner Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias. By margaret m. olsen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 189 pp. Cloth,$59.95. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Book Reviews General...

... Malpighi's and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli's Pisa, Nicolas Malebranche's Paris, or René Descartes's Amsterdam but in places like Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Portobelo, and Caracas. The names of the paragons of empiricism in this parallel universe are not enshrined in the annals of science. Instead, Gómez...

... accordionist Alberto Pacheco's classic “Cumbia Cienaguera,” the mascot song for the 2008 European soccer championship that put millions of sports fans on their feet, bears little resemblance to the regional ritmo of coastal Colombia. First documented in the late nineteenth century in a Cartagena newspaper in...

... Spanish empire is Buenos Aires, a remote frontier town, rather than more established urban centers like Cartagena and Mexico City. As a result, his discussion glosses over the critical economic and cultural transformations of the eighteenth century. The Bourbon reforms, which altered the ability to import...

... the overland route to the Pacific. Although the victory lacked the bloodshed and drama of Cartagena de Indias' historic triumph over British forces a year earlier—not a shot was fired—Portobelo's highly visible deterrent led Vernon, after holding the port for 17 days, to abandon his plan to cut a path...

... publisher and tertulía impresario Antonio Nariño translated Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man into Spanish. Copies of it were now thought to be circulating in Cartagena, Santa Fé, and beyond. Viceroy José de Ezpeleta put his officers on high alert for seditious acts.9 Fear of insurrection was already...

..., Cartagena de Indias, Panama, Portobelo, Nombre de Dios, Havana, Santo Domingo, Veracruz, Xalapa, and Mexico City. The biographies under study highlight that while different regions of the empire may have developed local views on skin color, individuals' lives often traversed diverse spaces. These...

... Schroeder 698 Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias, by Margaret M. Olsen, reviewed by Nicholas P. Cushner 700 Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World, by Irene Silverblatt, reviewed by Tamar Herzog 701 National Period Historia de los...

... Lowlands, edited and translated by Lawrence H. Feldman, reviewed by Charlotte M. Gradie 137 A corte no exílio: Civilização e poder no Brasil ás vésperas da independência (1808 a 1821), by Jurandir Malerba, reviewed by Neill Macaulayy 138 Cartagena de Indias y la región histórica del caribe...

... 1789 many colonial cities had followed suit, including Buenos Aires (1784), Caracas (1785), Guatemala (1787), Cartagena de Indias (1789), Santiago de Chile (1789), and Havana (1789). However, in spite of Article 53 of the Reglamento de comercio libre and merchants' interest in promoting their...

... Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The titles of articles in the HAHR are enclosed in quotation marks, and titles of books reviewed are printed in italics. The reviewer of a book is designated by (R). 105 días: El sitio de Pablo Morillo a Cartagena de Indias , by...

..., Spanish Central America designates a broader region of arrival encompassing both Veracruz and Cartagena, the two main legal points of entry for enslaved Africans into mainland Spanish America in the seventeenth century. 7. Located just west of present-­day Guatemala City, Santiago de Guatemala...

.... Already in the late sixteenth century a similar system of revenue transfers from interior cajas to a main port, Cartagena, was in place in what would become New Granada after 1717. Hermes Tovar Pinzón, El Imperio y sus colonias: Las Cajas Reales de la Nueva Granada en el siglo XVI (Bogotá: Archivo...

... Angola with slaves” and, according to Governor Francisco de Murga, was captured by a corsair off Zamba Point, near Cartagena, in 1636. The corsair's ship was based in Providence Island and had operated earlier in the year around the “Islands of Mosquito,” and when he took the ship carrying Angolans, he...