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Author: Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-10-05
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9004308792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early eighteenth century.
Author: Erica L. Ball
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-08
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1108493408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Author: Ernesto Bassi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2016-12-02
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0822373734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives bounded by geopolitical borders. Rather, the cross-border activities of sailors, traders, revolutionaries, indigenous peoples, and others reflected their perceptions of the Caribbean as a transimperial space where trade, information, and people circulated, both conforming to and in defiance of imperial regulations. Bassi demonstrates that the islands, continental coasts, and open waters of the transimperial Greater Caribbean constituted a space that was simultaneously Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Danish, Anglo-American, African, and indigenous. Exploring the "lived geographies" of the region's dwellers, Bassi challenges preconceived notions of the existence of discrete imperial spheres and the inevitable emergence of independent nation-states while providing insights into how people envision their own futures and make sense of their place in the world.
Author: W.H.G Kingston
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-29
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 3752368721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: In New Granada by W.H.G Kingston
Author: Larissa Brewer-García
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-06
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108493009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines how black intermediaries in colonial Spanish America influenced written portrayals of virtuous and beautiful blackness.
Author: Sir Clements Robert Markham
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tells the story of the Chibcha (or Muisca), the indigenous people of Colombia whose society was destroyed by the Europeans, notably Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509-1579).
Author: J. R. McNeill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-01-11
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1139484508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them.
Author: Helen Rodgers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-12-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0197644066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Granada is a deceptive city, concealing a layered past and a complex character. The last Muslim capital in Western Europe, over the centuries it has captured hearts and imaginations, inspiring countless myths and legends. Yet its history reveals even more fascinating tales: secrets and follies, victory and failure, poetry and art. City of Illusions brings together Granada's many stories--the archaeological forger, the renegade French general, the garrotted liberal heroine, the Jewish poet who served two Muslim rulers. This colourful cast of characters takes us from the founding eleventh-century dynasty and the building of the Alhambra, through the Reconquista, French occupation and Spanish Civil War, right up to the present day. Granada's history has long been fought over, rewritten, idealised or buried. This rich, elegant book sets the record straight on a beautiful, elusive city, with all its quirks, mysteries, intrigues and triumphs.
