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Featuring a renowned author team and the best recent scholarship,
World in the Making: A Global History explores both the global and
local dimensions of world history. Abundant full-color maps and
images, along with other special pedagogical features that
highlight the lives and voices of the world's peoples, make this
synthesis accessible and memorable for students-all at an
affordable low price.
Featuring a renowned author team and the best recent scholarship,
World in the Making: A Global History explores both the global and
local dimensions of world history. Abundant full-color maps and
images, along with other special pedagogical features that
highlight the lives and voices of the world's peoples, make this
synthesis accessible and memorable for students-all at an
affordable low price.
Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction
produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global
trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world's seas. Pillaging
the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in
this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their
victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane
pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that
led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places
the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire
building. This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been
revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on
piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new
chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy
as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of
individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann
Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to
all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic
world, and the global empires of the early modern era.
Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of
three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth
century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times
presents that story in an engaging but informative new package,
revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America -
emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to
the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and settlers, to the African
slaves they brought across the Atlantic, and to the indigenous
peoples whose lands were invaded. From the dawn of empires in the
fifteenth century, through the conquest age of the sixteenth and to
the end of empire in the nineteenth, the book combines broad
brushstrokes with anecdotal details that bring the era to life.
This new edition incorporates the newest scholarship on Spain,
Portugal, and Atlantic Africa, in addition to Latin America itself,
with indigenous and African views and women's experiences and
contributions to colonial society highlighted throughout.
Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction
produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global
trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world's seas. Pillaging
the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in
this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their
victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane
pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that
led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places
the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire
building. This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been
revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on
piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new
chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy
as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of
individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann
Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to
all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic
world, and the global empires of the early modern era.
Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social
history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial
Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa
to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish
slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the
ChristianusQuintus and FredericusQuartus, the author examines
slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic
origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to
the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their
acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica.
Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he
shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting
determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded
to their condition.
"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for
the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable
volume, Lane and Bialuschewski present a wonderfully diverse body
of primary texts on sea raiders. Drawn from a variety of sources,
including the authors' own archival research and translations,
these carefully curated texts cover over two hundred years
(1548--1726) of global, early-modern piracy. Lane and Bialuschewski
provide glosses of each document and a succinct introduction to the
historical context of the period and avoid the romanticized and
Anglo-centric depictions of maritime predation that often plague
work on the topic." -Jesse Cromwell, The University of Mississippi
This two-volume workbook includes approximately thirty-five
reference maps and fifty outline maps that provide opportunities to
deepen understanding of world history through coloring exercises.
"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for
the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable
volume, Lane and Bialuschewski present a wonderfully diverse body
of primary texts on sea raiders. Drawn from a variety of sources,
including the authors' own archival research and translations,
these carefully curated texts cover over two hundred years
(1548--1726) of global, early-modern piracy. Lane and Bialuschewski
provide glosses of each document and a succinct introduction to the
historical context of the period and avoid the romanticized and
Anglo-centric depictions of maritime predation that often plague
work on the topic." -Jesse Cromwell, The University of Mississippi
"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosi
as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-New York
Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on
a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the
world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico, or "Rich
Hill," and the Imperial Villa of Potosi instant legends, famous
from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half
of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it
remained the single richest source on Earth. Potosi is the first
interpretive history of the fabled mining city's rise and fall.
From Potosi's startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its
collapse in the nineteenth, Kris Lane tells the story of global
economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of
rampant colonial exploitation. Lane's invigorating narrative offers
rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A
new world-native workers, market women, African slaves, and other
ordinary residents living alongside elite merchants, refinery
owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials-emerges in lively,
riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction
of excess and devastation, Potosi reveals the relentless human
tradition in boom times and bust.
"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosi
as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-The New
York Review of Books In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay
dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed
the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich
Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosi instant legends, famous from
Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the
world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the
single richest source on earth. Potosi is the first interpretive
history of the fabled mining city's rise and fall. It tells the
story of global economic transformation and the environmental and
social impact of rampant colonial exploitation from Potosi's
startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the
nineteenth. Throughout, Kris Lane's invigorating narrative offers
rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A
new world of native workers, market women, African slaves, and
other ordinary residents who lived alongside the elite merchants,
refinery owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials, emerge in
lively, riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing
depiction of excess and devastation, Potosi reveals the relentless
human tradition in boom times and bust.
In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a
woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the
time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the
nation’s calamitous destiny - foreign invasion, widespread
misery, and chronic civil strife. The revelations, however,
pinpointed the cause of Mexico’s struggles: God was punishing the
nation for embracing blasphemous secularism. Responses ranged from
pious alarm to incredulous scorn. Although most likely a fiction
cooked up amid the era’s culture wars, Madre Matiana’s persona
nevertheless endured. In fact, her predictions remained influential
well into the twentieth century as society debated the nature of
popular culture, the crux of modern nationhood, and the role of
women, especially religious women. Here Edward Wright-Rios examines
this much-maligned - and sometimes celebrated - character and her
position in the development of a nation.
In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the
Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is
now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000
people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims
collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the
nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of
1717–22 was likely the most destructive disease to strike South
America since the days of the Spanish conquest. Pandemic in Potosí
features the single longest narrative of this nearly forgotten
period, penned by local historian Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y
Vela, along with shorter treatments of the disease’s ravages in
Cuzco, Arequipa, and the outskirts of Lima. The “Gran Peste,”
as it was called, was a pivotal event about which Arzáns wrote at
length because he lived through it, but also because it was
believed to have cosmic significance. Kris Lane translates and
contextualizes Arzáns’s account, which is rich in local detail
that sheds light on a range of topics—from therapeutics,
devotional life, class relations, gender, and race to conceptions
of illness, sin, and human will and responsibility during a major
public health crisis. Original narratives of the pandemic,
translated here for the first time, help readers see commonalities
and differences between past and present disease encounters.
Designed for use in courses on Latin American history, this concise
work will also interest scholars and students of the history of
religion, history of medicine, urban studies, and epidemiology.
Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of
three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth
century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times
presents that story in an engaging but informative new package,
revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America -
emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to
the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and settlers, to the African
slaves they brought across the Atlantic, and to the indigenous
peoples whose lands were invaded. From the dawn of empires in the
fifteenth century, through the conquest age of the sixteenth and to
the end of empire in the nineteenth, the book combines broad
brushstrokes with anecdotal details that bring the era to life.
This new edition incorporates the newest scholarship on Spain,
Portugal, and Atlantic Africa, in addition to Latin America itself,
with indigenous and African views and women's experiences and
contributions to colonial society highlighted throughout.
Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la
Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and
Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and
slavery. This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their
descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial
era to the first decades of independence. The author shows how the
enslaved Africans created social identities based on their common
experiences, ranging from surviving together the Atlantic and
coastal forced passages on slave vessels to serving as soldiers in
the independence-era black battalions. In addition to the slave
trade and the military, their participation in black lay
brotherhoods, African “nations,” and the lettered culture
shaped their social identities. Linking specific regions of Africa
to the Río de la Plata region, the author also explores the ties
of the free black and enslaved populations to the larger society in
which they found themselves.
THE RIDDLE OF LATIN AMERICA explores the promise and paradox of
Latin America in a novel way by giving equal weight to the colonial
and national periods. This is essential because in Latin America
colonialism started early and independence came late. The aim of
this book is to provide unfamiliar readers with a more balanced,
interpretive view of Latin America's long and complex history by
identifying key patterns and trends and tracing them across time
and space. Within chapters THE RIDDLE OF LATIN AMERICA takes a
regional rather than country-by-country approach, treating, for
example, the Greater Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, the
Andes, the Southern Cone, and Brazil.
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