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.
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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
Over de auteur
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.
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