Rethinking Atlantic Empire

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara's Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-120-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Studies in Latin American and Spanish History

In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain and Latin America has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, abolition, race, identity, and captivity. No scholar better exemplified these developments than Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, a specialist on Spain and its Caribbean colonies in Cuba and Puerto Rico. A brilliant career was cut short in 2015 when he died at the age of 48. Rethinking Atlantic Empire takes Schmidt-Nowara’s work as a point of departure, charting scholarly paths that move past reductive national narratives and embrace transnational approaches to the entangled empires of the Atlantic world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eastman, Scott

Jacobson, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations



Acknowledgments



Introduction

Scott Eastman and Stephen Jacobson

Chapter 1. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (1966–2015): His Work and His Life

Stephen Jacobson

Chapter 2. The First Word: Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874 and the Renewal of Spanish Imperial History"

Adrian Shubert

Chapter 3. Not Just Spain, Not Just Colonies: Writing Transnational Histories of the Nineteenth Century

Joshua Goode

Chapter 4. "Divergent Reflections” on Colonialism and Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic World: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s “The Conquest of History”

Dalia Antonia Muller

Chapter 5. Bonds of Affection? The Catholic Church and Slavery in New Spain

Emily Berquist Soule

Chapter 6. Questions of Scale: Spain, Latin America, and the Atlantic World in Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Scholarship on Slavery

Elena Schneider

Chapter 7. Empire and Anti-Slavery through a New Lens: Spanish Colonialism Seen from the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Anne Eller

Chapter 8. Unlocking the Historical Truth of Abolitionist Literature: Beecher Stowe's A Key in Spanish Translation

Lisa Surwillo

Chapter 9. Empire and Civil Rights in Franco’s Spain

Louie Dean Valencia-García

Chapter 10.  “To Make a Language of My Own”: Fernando Blanco White’s Flight to Freedom (1815)

Joselyn M. Almeida

Chapter 11. Spanish Prisoners of War and Political Refugees in France, 1808-1820

Juan Luis Simal



Conclusion: The Conquest of History and the Construction of Identitarian Discourses: An Interview with Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Vicent Sanz Rozalén



List of Works by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Über Autor(innen)

Eastman, Scott
Scott Eastman is the author of Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759-1823 (LSU Press, 2012). A member of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies since 2003, he served as president of the organization from 2018-2020. He is co-editor of Berghahn’s series Studies in Latin American and Spanish History.

Jacobson, Stephen
Stephen Jacobson is Associate Professor in Modern History, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and former director of the Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives. He is the co-editor of Endless Empire: Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).

Scott Eastman is the author of Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759-1823 (LSU Press, 2012). A member of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies since 2003, he served as president of the organization from 2018-2020. He is co-editor of Berghahn’s series Studies in Latin American and Spanish History.