Reviews

Author:

Willem Frijhoff

Reviewer:

James D. Tracy

Tracy on Frijhoff, 'Fulfilling God's Mission: The Two Worlds of Dominie Everardus Bogardus, 1607-1647'

Willem Frijhoff. Fulfilling God's Mission: The Two Worlds of Dominie Everardus Bogardus, 1607-1647. Translated by Myra Heerspink Scholz. The Atlantic World Series. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxvii + 628 pp. $144.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-16211-2.

Reviewed by James D. Tracy (Department of History, University of Minnesota, Emeritus) Published on H-Atlantic (August, 2011) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall

Author:

Tim Watson

Reviewer:

Susan Hall

Hall on Watson, 'Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870'

Tim Watson. Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv + 263 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-87626-1.

Reviewed by Susan Hall (Cameron University) Published on H-Atlantic (July, 2011) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall

Author:

Linda Marinda Heywood, John Kelly Thornton

Reviewer:

Gayle K. Brunelle

Brunelle on Heywood and Thornton, 'Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660'

Linda Marinda Heywood, John Kelly Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 370 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-77065-1; $22.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-77922-7.

Reviewed by Gayle K. Brunelle (California State University, Fullerton) Published on H-Atlantic (July, 2011) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall

Author:

Michele Gillespie, Robert Beachy, eds.

Reviewer:

Alexander Schunka

Schunka on Gillespie and Beachy, 'Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World'

Michele Gillespie, Robert Beachy, eds. Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. 278 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84545-339-8.

Reviewed by Alexander Schunka (Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universitaet Erfurt) Published on H-Atlantic (September, 2010) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall

Author:

Henriette de Bruyn Kops

Reviewer:

Laura E. Cruz

Cruz on Kops, 'A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade between France and the Dutch Republic in Its Atlantic Framework, 1600-1650'

Henriette de Bruyn Kops. A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade between France and the Dutch Republic in Its Atlantic Framework, 1600-1650. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Illustrations. xiii + 371 pp. $139.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-16074-3.

Reviewed by Laura E. Cruz (Western Carolina University) Published on H-Atlantic (September, 2010) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall

Author:

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Reviewer:

Serena R. Zabin

Zabin on Haggerty, 'The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods'

Sheryllynne Haggerty. The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods. The Atlantic World Series. Leiden: Brill, 2006. 304 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-15018-8.

Reviewed by Serena R. Zabin (Carleton College) Published on H-Atlantic (August, 2010) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall

Author:

Christoph Rosenmüller

Reviewer:

Alejandro Cañeque

Cañeque on Rosenmüller, 'Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702-1710'

Christoph Rosenmüller. Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702-1710. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008. x + 278 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55238-234-9.

Reviewed by Alejandro Cañeque (University of Maryland, College Park) Published on H-Atlantic (February, 2010) Commissioned by Jordana Dym

Author:

Matthew D. Childs

Reviewer:

David Sartorius

Sartorius on Childs, 'The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery'

Matthew D. Childs. The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 320 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5772-4.

Reviewed by David Sartorius (University of Maryland) Published on H-Atlantic (January, 2010) Commissioned by Jordana Dym

Reframing Rebellions

Author:

Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, Zephyr Frank, eds.

Reviewer:

Gustavo Paz

Paz on Topik and Marichal and Frank, 'From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000'

Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. American Encounters/Global Interactions Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 376 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-3766-9.

Author:

Gonzalo Lamana

Reviewer:

Laura E. Matthew

Matthew on Lamana, 'Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru'

Gonzalo Lamana. Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xiii + 287 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4293-9; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4311-0.

Reviewed by Laura E. Matthew (Marquette University) Published on H-Atlantic (December, 2009) Commissioned by Jordana Dym

Author:

Klaus Weber

Reviewer:

Katherine B. Aaslestad

Aaslestad on Weber, 'Deutsche Kaufleute im Atlantikhandel 1680-1830: Unternehmen und Familien in Hamburg, Cádiz und Bordeaux'

Klaus Weber. Deutsche Kaufleute im Atlantikhandel 1680-1830: Unternehmen und Familien in Hamburg, Cádiz und Bordeaux. München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2004. Tables, charts, maps. 403 pp. EUR 59.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-406-51860-7.

Reviewed by Katherine B. Aaslestad (West Virginia University) Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2009) Commissioned by Jordana Dym

Author:

Diogo Ramada Curto, Francisco Bethencourt, eds.

Reviewer:

Catia Antunes

Antunes on Curto and Bethencourt, 'Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800'

Diogo Ramada Curto, Francisco Bethencourt, eds. Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xx + 536 pp. $36.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-60891-6.

Reviewed by Catia Antunes Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2009) Commissioned by Jordana Dym

Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1600

Author:

Enrique Llopis, Carlos Marichal, eds.

Reviewer:

Gabriel Paquette

Paquette on Llopis and Marichal, 'Latinoamérica y España, 1800-1850: Un crecimiento económico nada excepcional'

Enrique Llopis, Carlos Marichal, eds. Latinoamérica y España, 1800-1850: Un crecimiento económico nada excepcional. Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia, 2009. 295 pp. EUR 22.99 (paper), ISBN 978-84-96467-92-7.

Reviewed by Gabriel Paquette (Cambridge University) Published on H-Atlantic (October, 2009) Commissioned by Jordana Dym

Economic Ties That Bind

Author:

Florine G. L. Asselbergs

Reviewer:

Barbara Mundy

Mundy on Asselbergs, 'Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala'

Florine G. L. Asselbergs. Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala. Mesoamerican Worlds Series. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xv + 372 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87081-899-8.

Reviewed by Barbara Mundy (Fordham University) Published on H-Atlantic (October, 2009) Commissioned by Jordana Dym

Author:

Patrick O'Flanagan

Reviewer:

Robert DuPlessis

DuPlessis on Fuente and Pino and Delgado, 'Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century' and O'Flanagan, 'Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500-1900'

Alejandro de la Fuente, with the collaboration of César García del Pino, Bernardo Iglesias Delgado. Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiii + 287 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-3192-2.Patrick O'Flanagan. Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500-1900.

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Reviews

Tracy on Frijhoff, 'Fulfilling God's Mission: The Two Worlds of Dominie Everardus Bogardus, 1607-1647'

Hall on Watson, 'Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870'

Brunelle on Heywood and Thornton, 'Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660'

Schunka on Gillespie and Beachy, 'Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World'

Cruz on Kops, 'A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade between France and the Dutch Republic in Its Atlantic Framework, 1600-1650'

Zabin on Haggerty, 'The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods'

Cañeque on Rosenmüller, 'Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702-1710'

Sartorius on Childs, 'The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery'

Paz on Topik and Marichal and Frank, 'From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000'

Matthew on Lamana, 'Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru'

Aaslestad on Weber, 'Deutsche Kaufleute im Atlantikhandel 1680-1830: Unternehmen und Familien in Hamburg, Cádiz und Bordeaux'

Antunes on Curto and Bethencourt, 'Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800'

Paquette on Llopis and Marichal, 'Latinoamérica y España, 1800-1850: Un crecimiento económico nada excepcional'

Mundy on Asselbergs, 'Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala'

DuPlessis on Fuente and Pino and Delgado, 'Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century' and O'Flanagan, 'Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500-1900'

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