Bøger i Dialogos Series serien

Divided into 4 parts, this book examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia (a province of Brazil) by 1851. It traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871, and focuses on the role of Candomble, an African religion practiced by the Africans of Brazil, in ending slavery in the area.

A collection of essays that addresses issues including contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities.

The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives and their built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons. This collection of essays focuses on earthquakes in Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century.

A collection of essays that places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It emphasizes human actors and accounts of lived experiences.

Shows that although plantation slavery was a horrible reality for many Africans and their descendants in Latin America, blacks experienced many other realities in Iberian colonies. This work analyses a treatise by a seventeenth-century Muslim scholar in Morocco and argues it shaped the slave trade to Latin America.

An imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This book offers a synthesis of that relationship by studying how actions and policies of the United States have been interpreted and played out in Latin America.

Focusing on the time period from the intensification of slave importation in 1580 to 1700, this work explores how Afro-Mexicans worked within the limitations imposed on them by the Church and the Spanish Crown in order to develop relationships with peers and superiors, defend themselves against unjust treatment, make money, and gain prestige.

Takes you on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. This book challenges the conventional notion that children are invisible in the historical record. It contains essays that present their small subjects - elite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprentices - through their lives and times.

Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.

In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such great military leaders as Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin unleashed both civil wars and revolutions between 1810 and 1824. Sixteen nations emerged from these violent and cataclysmic wars.

In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers - work rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey's study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing subject, from women drug smugglers in the early twentieth century to the cartel queens who make news today.

In this synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary Mexican men and women from Independence to the Revolution, combining explanations of social history, political and economic change, and gender relations.