Reviews

Author:

Tessa Murphy

Reviewer:

Eric Walls

Walls on Murphy, 'The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean'

Tessa Murphy. The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8122-9997-7; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5338-2.

Reviewed by Eric Walls (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Atlantic (May, 2023) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)

Author:

Richard Boles

Reviewer:

Richard Newman

Newman on Boles, 'Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (Early American Places, 17)'

Richard Boles. Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (Early American Places, 17). New York: New York University Press, 2020. 341 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-0318-7.

Author:

Roberto Strongman

Reviewer:

Marietta Kosma

Kosma on Strongman, 'Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou'

Roberto Strongman. Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. xi + 284 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0310-6.

Reviewed by Marietta Kosma (University of Oxford) Published on H-Atlantic (April, 2022) Commissioned by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University)

Author:

Margarette Lincoln

Reviewer:

Blake Earle

Earle on Lincoln, 'Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson'

Margarette Lincoln. Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 304 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-22748-2.

Reviewed by Blake Earle (Texas A&M University at Galveston) Published on H-Atlantic (March, 2022) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)

Author:

Cathal Smith

Reviewer:

Angela F. Murphy

Murphy on Smith, 'American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective'

Cathal Smith. American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective. Routledge Studies in Modern History Series. New York: Routledge, 2021. Maps. 389 pp. $48.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-314354-3; $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-367-69851-5.

Reviewed by Angela F. Murphy (Texas State University) Published on H-Atlantic (February, 2022) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)

Author:

Cécile Vidal

Reviewer:

Kristin C. Lee

Lee on Vidal, 'Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society'

Cécile Vidal. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 552 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4518-6.

Reviewed by Kristin C. Lee (University College, Washington University in St. Louis) Published on H-Atlantic (January, 2022) Commissioned by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University)

Author:

Herman L. Bennett

Reviewer:

Chris Blakley

Blakley on Bennett, 'African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic'

Herman L. Bennett. African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 226 pages. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5063-3.

Author:

Christine Levecq

Reviewer:

Michael Becker

Becker on Levecq, 'Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution'

Christine Levecq. Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 304 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4218-6.

Author:

Diana Arbaiza

Reviewer:

Daniela Samur

Samur on Arbaiza, 'The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875-1936'

Diana Arbaiza. The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875-1936. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Illustrations. 308 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-268-10693-5.

Reviewed by Daniela Samur (Cornell University) Published on H-Atlantic (December, 2021) Commissioned by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University)

Author:

Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson, eds.

Reviewer:

Gayle K. Brunelle

Brunelle on Blaufarb, 'The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830: A Documentary History' and Desan and Hunt and Nelson, 'The French Revolution in Global Perspective'

Rafe Blaufarb, ed. The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 528 pp. $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-989796-4. Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson, eds. The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. vi + 236 pp.

Author:

David Wilson

Reviewer:

Blake Earle

Earle on Wilson, 'Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans'

David Wilson. Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Melton: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2021. 288 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-595-3.

Reviewed by Blake Earle (Texas A&M University of Galveston) Published on H-Atlantic (October, 2021) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)

Author:

Gregory P. Downs

Reviewer:

Eric Walls

Walls on Downs, 'The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic'

Gregory P. Downs. The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic. The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 232 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5273-3.

Reviewed by Eric Walls (Johnston Community College) Published on H-Atlantic (October, 2021) Commissioned by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University)

Author:

Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, eds.

Reviewer:

María Victoria Marquez

Marquez on Valle and More and O'Toole, 'Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization'

Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, eds. Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization. Hispanic Issues Series. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. 368 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8265-2252-8; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-2253-5.

Author:

Wim Klooster

Reviewer:

Pamela McVay

McVay on Klooster, 'The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World'

Wim Klooster. The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 432 pp. Ill. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5045-7.

Reviewed by Pamela McVay (Ursuline College) Published on H-Atlantic (August, 2021) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)

Author:

Andrew Lambert

Reviewer:

Blake Earle

Earle on Lambert, 'Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World'

Andrew Lambert. Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 320 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23004-8.

Reviewed by Blake Earle (Texas A&M University of Galveston) Published on H-Atlantic (August, 2021) Commissioned by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University)

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Walls on Murphy, 'The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean'

Newman on Boles, 'Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (Early American Places, 17)'

Kosma on Strongman, 'Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou'

Earle on Lincoln, 'Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson'

Murphy on Smith, 'American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective'

Lee on Vidal, 'Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society'

Blakley on Bennett, 'African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic'

Becker on Levecq, 'Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution'

Samur on Arbaiza, 'The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875-1936'

Brunelle on Blaufarb, 'The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830: A Documentary History' and Desan and Hunt and Nelson, 'The French Revolution in Global Perspective'

Earle on Wilson, 'Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans'

Walls on Downs, 'The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic'

Marquez on Valle and More and O'Toole, 'Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization'

McVay on Klooster, 'The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World'

Earle on Lambert, 'Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World'

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