Rethinking Atlantic Empire - Christopher Schmidt Nowaras Histories of Nineteenth Century Spain

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.

About the author

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.

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).

Summary

In recent years, the historiography of 19th-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Jacobson Eastman
• Assisted by: Scott Eastman (Editor), Eastman Scott (Editor), Stephen Jacobson (Editor), Jacobson Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781800731202
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-120-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Studies in Latin American and Spanish History; Studies in Latin American and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Latin America, European History, Spain, HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, History: 18th/19th Century; Colonial History