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Premises and Problems
(April 2021)
Essays on World Literature and Cinema
Luiza Franco Moreira - Edited and with an introduction by
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Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.
World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to criti...(Read More) |
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Atlantic Transformations
(April 2020)
Empire, Politics, and Slavery during the Nineteenth Century
Dale W. Tomich - Editor
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Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century.
This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United ...(Read More) |
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Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World
(April 2019)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Christopher R. DeCorse - Editor
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Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-Western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has demonst...(Read More) |
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy
(October 2018)
Michaeline A. Crichlow - Editor
Patricia Northover - Editor
Juan Giusti-Cordero - Editor
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Essays that examine globalization’s effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.
Issues of migration, environment, rurality, and the visceral “politics of place” and “space” have occupied center stage in recent electoral political struggles in the United States and Europe, suffused by an antiglobalization discourse that has come ...(Read More) |
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The Trade in the Living
(October 2018)
The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro - Author
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Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.
The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the “sad blood” of the “b...(Read More) |
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The Politics of the Second Slavery
(December 2016)
Dale W. Tomich - Editor
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Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
The creation of new frontiers of slave commodity production and the expansion and intensification of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the southern United States were an integral part of the expansion of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery br...(Read More) |
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition
(April 2016)
Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848
Dale W. Tomich - Author
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Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.
A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomi...(Read More) |
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New Frontiers of Slavery
(March 2016)
Dale W. Tomich - Edited and with an introduction by
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Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.
The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new analytical and interpretive approaches to the crisis of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century. By treating slavery within the framework of the modern world economy, they call attention to new zones of slave production that were formed as par...(Read More) |
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The Longue Duree and World-Systems Analysis
(May 2012)
Richard E. Lee - Edited and with an introduction by
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Scholars from history, sociology, and geography advocate overcoming disciplinary isolation, using Fernand Braudel’s concept of the longue durée as a rallying point.
In his pathbreaking article “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée,” Fernand Braudel raised a call for the social sciences to overcome their disciplinary isolation from one another. Commemoratin...(Read More) |
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