This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of
slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth …

Postcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new
book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressible demands of utopia. The concept …

In The Unsettlement of America, Anna Brickhouse explores the fascinating career and
ambivalent narrative legacy of Paquiquineo, a largely forgotten Native translator of the early …

In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians
reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each …

Cannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery.
Humans who ate other humans, they believed, were little better than animals. The European …

The foundation of the East India Company coincided with a dramatic expansion of England's
overseas activities brought about through new trading, colonial, and exploratory ventures …

Narratives of cultural encounter in colonial North America often contrast traditional Indian
coastal-dwellers and intrepid European seafarers. In Storm of the Sea, Matthew R. Bahar …

Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists analyzes the vibrant and often violent political
culture of seventeenth-century America, exploring the relationship between early American …

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Even as they work in its realm, practitioners of Atlantic history debate its potential limitations
and flaws as a method of conceptualizing the past. Some critics observe that almost from the …