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Review of Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico by Monica A. Jiménez (2024)

Review of Stalin as Warlord, by Alfred J. Rieber (2022)

Review of Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World, by Kristie Flannery (2024)

Review of The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838, by Sophie Brockmann (2020).

Review of We the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-century Spanish New World by Adrian Masters (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Review of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (2022) by Robyn d’Avignon

Review of The Age of Dissent: Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile (2023), by Martín Bowen

Review of India in the Persian World of Letters by Arthur Dudney (2022)

Review of Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700 (2020) by Ron Harris

Review of Electric News in Colonial Algeria (2019) by Arthur Asseraf

Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill

Converting “Latinos” during Salem’s Witch Trials: A Review of Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (2022) by Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Review of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (2018) by Megan Black

Review of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) by Bathsheba Demuth

Review of Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (2007) by Diana K. Davis

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

Review of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) by Conevery Bolton Valencius

Humanizing Great Mother Russia: “Ekaterina” on Amazon Prime

The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature

Coding Viceregal Art: Project Arca and Spanish Visual Culture Within the Digital Humanities

Review of The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire (2013)

Review of The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire (2013)

The Intra-American Slave Trade Database: A Review and Interview with Gregory O’Malley and Alex Borucki

The Approaching Storm

Review of The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and their Clash over America’s Future (2021)

Cotton, Coal, and Capitalism: Review of Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation and On Barak’s Powering Empire

Republics of Knowledge, Democracy, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America (2020) by Nicola Miller

Review of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (2017) by Nükhet Varlik

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World By Jessica Marie Johnson (2020)

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World By Ralph Bauer (2019)

Digital Archive Review – Imágenes y relatos de un viaje por Colombia

Digital Archive Review – Ticha: A Digital Text Explorer for Colonial Zapotec

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza (2019)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)

Digital Archive Review – Authorship and Advocacy: The Native American Petitions Dataverse

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by John M. Monteiro (2018)

African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World; Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira (2012)

Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain by Martin Nesvig (2018)

When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History, by Matthew Restall (2018)

Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon (1983)

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia by Liam Matthew Brockey (2014)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004)

The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico by Alejandro Cañeque (2004)

Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War (2016)

The Cold War’s World History and Imperial Histories of the US and the World

The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico by Enrique Rodríguez Alegría (2016)

Book cover of By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 by Michael J. Green

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

Book cover of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr (2007)

Book cover of Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser (2017)

Victoria & Abdul: Simulacra & Simulation

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks, by Stewart Gordon (2015)

The Web of Empire, By Alison Games (2008)

Magical Realism on Drugs: Colombian History in Netflix’s Narcos

Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)

Historical Perspectives on Isao Takahata’s Grave of Fireflies

Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, by Sanjay Subrahmanyam (2004)

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico, by Shirley Cushing Flint (2013)

A Rebellion Remembered: The Irish Easter Rising’s New Digital Archive

I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)

How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, by Tonio Andrade (2008)

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India, by Gauri Viswanathan (1989)

Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins (1975)

Movie poster of the movie The Descendants

The Invisible History of Hawaii in Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants”

Book cover of The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher (1982)

Wavell: the Viceroy’s Journal by Archibald Percival Wavell, ed. Penderel Moon (1973)

Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment by David J. Weber (2005)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

Book cover of The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad

Undergraduate Essay Contest Honorable Mention: The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad (2007)

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979)

Movie poster of the movie Amigo

Film Review – Amigo (2011)

Book cover of The Doubtful Strait/El estrecho dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal and translated by John Lyons

The Doubtful Strait/El Estrecho Dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal (1995)

Book cover of Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

The Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper (2006)

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba by Karen Bouwer

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (2010)

Book cover of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India by Loseph Lelyveld (2010)

The Wilsonian Moment by Erez Manela (2007)

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in the Americas, 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott (2007)

Great Books on Egypt in the Modern World

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

Book cover of Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism Second Edition by Zachary Lockman

Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman (2004)

Book cover of Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857 compiled and translated by Mahmood Farooqui

Beseiged: Voices from Delhi 1857 by Mahmood Farooqui (2010)

Book cover of Latin America's Cold War by Hal Brands

Latin America’s Cold War by Hal Brands (2010)

Book cover of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor (2010)

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