Joseph M. H. Clark (University of Kentucky)

Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative book that draws on environmental, economic, social, and cultural history to define a regional space between Mexico and the Caribbean through which African diasporans defined identities and built communities. Essential reading for scholars of Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic world history.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781009180320
• ISBN-10: 1009180320
• Artikelnr.: 74979672

Autorenporträt

Joseph M. H. Clark is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. His research examines the intersection of Mexican, Caribbean, and Atlantic history in the early modern period, focusing especially on African Diaspora.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Building the Mexican-Caribbean World: 1. Veracruz before the Caribbean
2. Environment, health, and race, 1599-1697
3. Imperial designs and regional systems
4. The large- and small-scale introduction of Africans to Veracruz
Part II. The Caribbean in Veracruz: 5. After the slave trade: nation, ethnicity, and mobility after 1640
6. Practice and community in a spiritual borderland
7. Caribbean defenses, the free-black militia, and regional consciousness
Conclusion: the Mexican Archipelago
Appendices.