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... of the trade. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database . Edited by Eltis David and Richardson David . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2008 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Index . xiii , 377 pp. Cloth...

... during Cuban state formation. Nevertheless, legislators’ lofty ideas about equiparación contrast sharply with ordinary citizens’ attempts to claim their newly extended rights in judicial courts. A comparison of the legislators’ debates and ordinary Cubans’ efforts in the courtrooms to claim equiparación...

... to confront the matter through the adoption of emancipation funds. As abolitionist performances extended the parameters of political participation, however, they also produced narratives of progress that both stigmatized Africanness and elided the place of freed slaves within the newly envisioned body politic...

...Carmen Soliz Abstract When analyzing the effects of the 1952 Bolivian Revolution in the countryside, scholars have highlighted the political role of the colonos (tenants) and the extended program of land redistribution of large estates that started soon after the government decreed the agrarian...

... produced between these elemental and modern carceral forms and argue that the penal colony was an open-door panopticon, where punishment and routines were aligned with environmental factors that extended beyond the prison walls and thereby complicated progressive criminology. Prisoner labor in the town...

... public policy debates were carried out with ramifications that extended to rival notions of how society should be properly organized. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 “During the time of the patrons we did not know how to speak Spanish, only Kichwa,” 75-year...

...William R. Summerhill Abstract In “Bargaining for Absolutism,” Alejandra Irigoin and Regina Grafe argue three points of considerable interest to historians: political absolutism in Castile did not extend to fiscal matters; fiscal relations within Spain and its empire were characterized...

... of vineyards, as is illustrated in Fray Luis de León’s La perfecta casada (1583). Second, as a transportation center, Mendoza had many men who worked as muleteers, on wagon trains, and on cattle drives; their extended absences generated greater responsibilities and independence for women. Third, the example...

..., and social medicine; and the local-global nexus in Latin American health and medicine. These themes both draw from and extend beyond those addressed in pathbreaking works such as Nancy Leys Stepan’s Beginnings of Brazilian Science . Among the most stimulating developments of recent years...

... of the period immediately after a series of violent inquisitional acts in the mid- and late 1520s and late 1530s. The issuing of such an order by a member of the Tlaxcalan political elite is a clear example of a carefully implemented act of long-term indigenous agency, aimed at constructing and extending...

... of a fine university press and the accoutrements of extended footnotes, a good index, and a developed bibliography, this is not a scholarly work. The author, the Consultant in the Wyles Collection of Lincolniana and Western Americana of the University of California at Santa Barbara, provides an episodic...

... his immediate family—wife and legitimate children—but also his nonwhite mistress or mistresses (either free or, more often, slave women) and their illegitimate offspring. It further included numerous extended kin, free retainers of various sorts, and also, of course, slaves. The patriarchal casa...

..., Chile, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, Women's Suffrage in the Americas draws on a vast, collective archive to better understand efforts to extend to women the vote from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It is no small task to engage across geographic...

... in the enactment of the law, and the effect on U.S. trade partners of provisions that extend the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba. Providing a detailed account of the domestic political context of the bill, the author effectively traces its origins in both the Cuban exile community and the national political...

.... An extended United States sojourn from 2000 to 2004 led Portillo Valdés, a historian of Spanish constitutionalism, to a surprisingly understudied research agenda. He explores the relations between the constitutionalism of the Spanish Cortes of 1810, in which both peninsular Spain and Spanish America were...

... have historical studies of the family in Brazil extended far into the present century. For the most part, the scholarly literature has been confined to the colonial period, with increasing attention to the nineteenth century. Now Dain Borges ambitiously jumps squarely into the twentieth century...

... durée , the author argues that the dominant view presented in 43 legal commentaries, published up to 1888, on the Brazilian criminal code of 1830 perceived the Brazilian state in Aristotelian terms—as an extended family. “Slavery provided the fundamental cause for the reemergence of Roman law...

... faulty family and community oral histories that rarely extended beyond three or four generations, the ease and frequency by which individuals adopted new surnames and identities, and communication difficulties. Present in Spain, these obstacles were far more detrimental in the New World, where growing...

... the colonized being protected fully by the US Constitution. The colonized enjoy to this day only such protections as Congress sees fit to extend to the island. The concept of “unincorporated territory” allows the US government to treat Puerto Rico as internal for some purposes and as external for others...

... photographs and reproductions of codex images, engravings, maps, and so forth; its useful data (as in the table on p. 142 of the principal religious chroniclers of New Spain); and its extended and insightful discussions of the work of Florescano’s historiographical heroes, among them Lorenzo Boturini...