The Early Modern Americas

Volumes in the series explore neglected aspects of early modern history in the western hemisphere. Interdisciplinary in character, and with a special emphasis on the Atlantic World from 1450 to 1850, the series is published in partnership with the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Series Editor:
Peter C. Mancall
Professor of History and Anthropology, University of Southern California, and Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute

Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor
rlockhar@upenn.edu

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Captives of Conquest

Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean

Erin Woodruff Stone

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781512827958

Pub Date: February 2025

Format: Paperback

242 Pages

One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish CaribbeanCaptives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish...

The Two Princes of Mpfumo

An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery

Lindsay O'Neill

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781512827200

Pub Date: February 2025

Format: Hardcover

200 Pages

A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slaveryIn 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo,...

Poisoned Relations

Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World

Chelsea Berry

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9781512826494

Pub Date: September 2024

Format: Hardcover

272 Pages

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic worldBy the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed...

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World

Kristie Flannery

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781512825749

Pub Date: May 2024

Format: Hardcover

296 Pages

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Kristie Patricia...

Natural Designs

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature

Elizabeth Gansen

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781512824568

Pub Date: November 2023

Format: Hardcover

248 Pages

Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and...

Beyond 1619

The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery

Edited by Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner and Jesse Cromwell

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781512825015

Pub Date: October 2023

Format: Hardcover

248 Pages

Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery’s origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States...

The Virginia Venture

American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660

Misha Ewen

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9781512822991

Pub Date: August 2022

Format: Hardcover

224 Pages

The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of the first permanent English colony in America:...

Intimate Bonds

Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic

Jennifer L. Palmer

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780812225211

Pub Date: February 2022

Format: Paperback

280 Pages

Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery,...

The Age of Intoxication

Origins of the Global Drug Trade

Benjamin Breen

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780812224986

Pub Date: July 2021

Format: Paperback

288 Pages

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the...

Undercurrents of Power

Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora

Kevin Dawson

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780812224931

Pub Date: May 2021

Format: Paperback

360 Pages

Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean. In those waterways,...

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The Early Modern Americas

Showing results 1-10 of 31

Captives of Conquest

Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean

The Two Princes of Mpfumo

An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery

Poisoned Relations

Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World

Natural Designs

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature

Beyond 1619

The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery

The Virginia Venture

American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660

Intimate Bonds

Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic

The Age of Intoxication

Origins of the Global Drug Trade

Undercurrents of Power

Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora