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          Atlantic Crossings

          The Atlantic Crossings series publishes books exploring the history of the Atlantic world from the sixteenth century until the end of the nineteenth century. It addresses a broad range of themes and subjects, including migration and diasporas, environment and epidemiology, transnational intellectual and political exchanges, Indigenous experiences, slavery and the slave trade, emancipation and its legacies, trade and cultural networks, and diplomacy and military affairs. Read more . . .

          Series Editors:
          Karen Racine (kracine [at] uoguelph [dot] edu)
          Leo J. Garofalo (lgar [at] conncoll [dot] edu)
          Gabriel Paquette (gabriel [dot] paquette [at] maine [dot] edu)
          Acquisitions Editor: Wendi Schnaufer (wschnaufer [at] ua [dot] edu)

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          The Emperor’s Last Campaign

          The Emperor's Last Campaign

          A Napoleonic Empire in America

          by Emilio Ocampo

          Price: $39.95

          ISBN: 9780817361259

          Pub Date: August 2023

          Format: Paperback

          The fascinating story of the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power

          This Incurable Evil

          This Incurable Evil

          Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687

          by Eugene C. Berger

          Price: $39.95

          ISBN: 9780817361105

          Pub Date: May 2023

          Format: Paperback

          Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families
           
          The Mark of Rebels

          The Mark of Rebels

          Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence

          by Barry M. Robinson

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780817360467

          Pub Date: November 2021

          Format: Paperback

          Explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independence
          In the Blood of Our Brothers

          In the Blood of Our Brothers

          Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870

          by Jesús Sanjurjo

          Price: $54.95

          ISBN: 9780817321055

          Pub Date: October 2021

          Format: Hardcover

          Details the abolition of the slave trade in the Atlantic World to the 1860s
           
          Mastering the Law

          Mastering the Law

          Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire

          by Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey

          Price: $49.95

          ISBN: 9780817320669

          Pub Date: November 2020

          Format: Hardcover

          Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America
          Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights

          Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights

          A Brief History with Documents

          by Lawrence A. Clayton and David M. Lantigua

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780817359690

          Pub Date: April 2020

          Format: Paperback

          An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas
          Taxing Blackness

          Taxing Blackness

          Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain

          by Norah L. A. Gharala

          Price: $54.95

          ISBN: 9780817320072

          Pub Date: February 2019

          Format: Hardcover

          A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans
          A Great Fear

          A Great Fear

          Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812

          by Timothy Hawkins

          Price: $49.95

          ISBN: 9780817320041

          Pub Date: January 2019

          Format: Hardcover

          An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion
          Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

          Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

          A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898

          Translated by Dolores J. Walker

          by Josep Conangla

          Edited by Joaquín Roy

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817358921

          Pub Date: February 2017

          Format: Paperback

          Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba’s second War of Independence.
          José de Bustamante and Central American Independence

          José de Bustamante and Central American Independence

          Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis

          by Timothy Hawkins

          Price: $39.95

          ISBN: 9780817357108

          Pub Date: October 2011

          Format: Paperback

          The first full-length study of a significant figure of the Spanish Enlightenment
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