Christopher Schmidt‐nowara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Schmidt‐nowara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt‐nowara |
| SIGNATURE | NOWARA C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction Colonial Pioneer and Plantation Latecomer
The Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the Americas after 1804
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Spain and the Politics of the Second Slavery, 1808–1868
Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba
In spite of British efforts to suppress the traffic in slaves from Africa to the Americas in the first half of the nineteenth century, “two triangles of the transatlantic slave trade” (9) not only persisted but flourished: one that joined the US eastern seaboard, Africa, and Cuba, and another that brought together Cuba, Brazil, and Africa. Dale T. Graden’s new work reconstructs these triangular trades, which reached their acme between the 1820s a…
Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810 by Lyman L. Johnson
Reviewed by: Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810 by Lyman L. Johnson Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Lyman L. Johnson. Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2011. xiv + 410 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4996-2, $94.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4891-5, $27.95 (paper). The fantastic growth of Buenos Aires at the end of the eighteenth centur…
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
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David Sartorius. Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba
David Sartorius has identified a vital and little-understood topic in Cuban, Spanish, and colonial Latin American historiography: the politics of loyalty of Cuba's free population of color in the nineteenth century. Why is this subject so urgent? Cuba was the largest slave society in Spanish American history, peaking in the mid-nineteenth century. It was also one of Spain's last two American colonies after the Spanish American revolutions of the …
Héritages coloniaux ou innovations révolutionnaires ? Nouvelles recherches sur la race, l'esclavage et la citoyenneté dans les indépendances d'Amérique latine
Le mouvement d'indépendance du début du XIX e siècle en Amérique latine, jadis considéré comme très conservateur, apparaît aujourd'hui comme profondément démocratique et radical, en particulier dans les sociétés où l'esclavage occupait une place importante. La démocratie politique, la suppression de la discrimination raciale officielle et l'abolition de l'esclavage font partie des avancées dont les historiens parlent aujourd'hui lorsqu'ils traite…
Continental Origins of Insular Proslavery: George Dawson Flinter in Curaçao, Venezuela, Britain, and Puerto Rico, 1810s-1830s
This article traces the career and migrations of George Dawson Flinter, a naturalized Spanish subject of Irish origin, who became a prominent apologist for slavery and Spanish colonial rule in the Caribbean in the 1820s and 1830s. It argues that Flinter's experiences in the revolutionary Americas, especially in Venezuela, shaped his attitudes toward slavery, freedom, race, and social order, which he promoted on behalf of the Spanish regime as a p…
El imperio de las circunstancias: Las independencias hispanoamericanas y la revolución liberal española
The subtitle of Roberto Breña's new work signals the importance he ascribes to the events in metropolitan Spain as a trigger for the conflicts that led to Spanish American independence. Napoleon Bonaparte's overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy and efforts to incorporate Spain and its overseas colonies into his European empire unintentionally set in motion revolutions in the metropole and in the Americas alike. In Spain, the Constitution of Cádiz of …
Anti-slavery in Spain and Its Colonies, 1808â 86
A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
Ricardo Batrell’s Para la historia: Apuntes autobiográficas de la vida de Ricardo Batrell Oviedo appeared in Cuba in 1912, a year of great conflict in the republic. The government responded to an uprising of the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC) with exemplary violence, murdering thousands of its citizens suspected of involvement with the party and the rebellion. Batrell himself was an Afro-Cuban from Sabanillas in Matanzas, a region where the…
Caribbean emancipations
Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil: The Black Does Not Enter the Church, He Peeks in from Outside
Some Brazilians, especially in the Catholic hierarchy, feared that the arrival of Protestant missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century would do harm to the dominant order. And indeed, as José Carlos Barbosa shows, the long-term goal of some of the North American missionaries was to diminish the importance of the Catholic Church and other traditional institutions by encouraging religious freedom and introducing modern forms of thought and associa…
Politics and Ideas in Latin American Independence
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Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives
Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives , by Stanley L. Engerman, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2007, x + 128 pp. $25.00 cloth, ISBN 0-8071-3236-5 When Adam Sm
Cayeyanos: Familias y solidaridades en la historia de Cayey
In the preface to his book on the people of Cayey, Fernando Picó quickly traces the economic changes that have shaped the town since its founding in the late eighteenth century. Cayey was a center of coffee production and cattle ranching under Spanish rule. The U.S. invasion and the 1899 Hurricane San Ciriaco wiped out the coffee crop, but local planters rebounded by converting to tobacco and sugar. The wars fought by the United States also shape…
Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700 (review)
Reviewed by: Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700 Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700. By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Historians of the Atlantic world are committed to looking beyond the boundaries of area studies and to capturing the connections that drew together Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans during the making of New Wo…
Spanish origins of American Empire: Hispanism, history, and commemoration, 1898–1915
Since the end of the cold war, and with particular urgency since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, historians and pundits have searched for parallel cases that make sense of the United States' military and economic predominance in the current international order. Many have chosen the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the most telling. As Dane Kennedy argues in an article recently published in The International…
Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850–1975
A History of Disasters: Spanish Colonialism in the Age of Empire
Historians have long relegated colonialism to the margins of modern Spanish history. Spain lost the majority of its overseas empire in the Spanish American revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It was a late, reluctant, and small‐scale participant in the partition of Africa. Recent scholarship, however, is bringing colonialism back to the center of Spain's nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article examines these findings and conside…
The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century
Puerto Rico 1898: The War after the War
Fernando Picó has made fundamental contributions to the history of Puerto Rico, from broad interpretive surveys to fine-grained studies of work, class, and politics in Utuado, a mountainous coffee district that underwent dramatic social and economic changes in the nineteenth century. Puerto Rico 1898 is the translation of a work that first appeared in Spanish in 1987. It is a study of how Puerto Ricans responded to the North Ameri-can invasion of…
Silver, Slaves, and Sugar: The Persistence of Spanish Colonialism from Absolutism to Liberalism
Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe. By Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. 351. $49.95 cloth.) Black Society in Spanish Florida. By Jane Landers. Foreword by Peter H. Wood. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. 390. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Los Marqueses De Comillas, 1817-1925: Antonio Y Claudio Lopez. By …
Still Continents (and an Island) with Two Histories
Historians of Latin American slavery will find de la Fuente's article to be a particularly trenchant and learned essay on familiar historiographic controversies. The archival research awakens anticipation for the author's in-depth study of the earlier period of Cuban slavery, much neglected in favor of the heyday of the sugar complex of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Concentrating on the law and “slaves' claims-making” (341) allows…
Backwardness and its discontents
Continental Origins of Insular Proslavery: George Dawson Flinter in Curaçao, Venezuela, Britain, and Puerto Rico, 1810s-1830s
This article traces the career and migrations of George Dawson Flinter, a naturalized Spanish subject of Irish origin, who became a prominent apologist for slavery and Spanish colonial rule in the Caribbean in the 1820s and 1830s. It argues that Flinter's experiences in the revolutionary Americas, especially in Venezuela, shaped his attitudes toward slavery, freedom, race, and social order, which he promoted on behalf of the Spanish regime as a p…
La EspaÒa Ultramarina’: Colonialism and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Spain
This article seeks to introduce colonialism into recent debates over the construction of Spanish nationalism in the nineteenth century. First, it reappraises the importance of the major colonies that Spain maintained in the aftermath of the Spanish American revolutions: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. It shows that Cuba figured significantly in the political economy of Spanish liberalism between two moments of decolonization. Moreover, Spa…
Big questions and answers: Three histories of slavery, the slave trade and the Atlantic world
Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850–1975
Still Continents (and an Island) with Two Histories
Historians of Latin American slavery will find de la Fuente's article to be a particularly trenchant and learned essay on familiar historiographic controversies. The archival research awakens anticipation for the author's in-depth study of the earlier period of Cuban slavery, much neglected in favor of the heyday of the sugar complex of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Concentrating on the law and “slaves' claims-making” (341) allows…
National Economy and Atlantic Slavery: Protectionism and Resistance to Abolitionism in Spain and the Antilles, 1854-1874
In December I872 fistfight broke out in the Barcelona stock exchange. According to witness, the violence began when man delivered an impromptu speech in defense of Antillean slavery. His intransigence outraged one listener who cried out in response: iViva la libertad de los negros! (Long live liberty for blacks!). In spontaneous display of loyalty to colonial slavery, the rest of the public set upon the lone abolitionist in its midst. The narrato…
The return of liberalism
Colonialism and hegemony in Spain and the Antilles in the nineteenth century 1
Jesús Raúl Navarro García, Entre esclavos y constituciónes (el colonialismo liberal de 1837 en Cuba) (1991), 299 (C.S.I.C., Seville, [Between Slaves and Constitutions (The Liberal Colonialism of 1837 in Cuba)]. Astrid Cubano Iguina, El hilo en el laberinto: claves de la lucha política en Puerto Rico (sig10 XIX) (1990), 166 (Ediciones Huracán, Río Piedras, $9.95), [The Thread in the Labyrinth: Keys to the Political Struggle in Puerto Rico (Ninetee…
Council for European Studies: Toward the Social and Cultural History of Capitalism
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Abolition and Anti-Slavery
National Economy and Atlantic Slavery: Protectionism and Resistance to Abolitionism in Spain and the Antilles, 1854-1874
In December I872 fistfight broke out in the Barcelona stock exchange. According to witness, the violence began when man delivered an impromptu speech in defense of Antillean slavery. His intransigence outraged one listener who cried out in response: iViva la libertad de los negros! (Long live liberty for blacks!). In spontaneous display of loyalty to colonial slavery, the rest of the public set upon the lone abolitionist in its midst. The narrato…
Empire And Antislavery: Spain Cuba And Puerto Rico 1833-1874
Borders and Borderlands of Interpretation
Journal Article Borders and Borderlands of Interpretation Get access Christopher Ebert Schmidt-Nowara Christopher Ebert Schmidt-Nowara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 104, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 1226–1228, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.4.1226 Published: 01 October 1999
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography1898: su significado para Centroamérica y el Caribe. ¿Censura, cambio, continuidad
The end of slavery and the end of empire: Slave emancipation in Cuba and Puerto Rico
(2000). The end of slavery and the end of empire: Slave emancipation in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 21, After Slavery: Emancipation and its Discontents, pp. 188-207
The Specter of Las Casas: José Antonio Saco and the Persistence of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba
The empire of absolutist Spain haunted the debates over the empire of liberal Spain. To take one example, José Arias y Miranda, an unemployed civil servant who would later work as the librarian for the Ministerio de Ultramar (Overseas Ministry), responded to the Real Academia de la Historia's query on the effects of the American empire on Spain's economy and society in words that would have been familiar to a seventeenth-century arbitrista. After…
Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest
Big questions and answers: Three histories of slavery, the slave trade and the Atlantic world
Manuel Moreno Fraginals: An Appreciation
Manuel Moreno Fraginals authored one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century historiography, El ingenio, in which he reconstructed the efforts of Cuban planters to build one of the Atlantic world’s major slave societies of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He also argued vigorously that the system’s unmaking was due to its own internal contradictions, specifically that the need to shift investment away from slave labor and to advance…
Silver, Slaves, and Sugar: The Persistence of Spanish Colonialism from Absolutism to Liberalism
Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe. By Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. 351. $49.95 cloth.) Black Society in Spanish Florida. By Jane Landers. Foreword by Peter H. Wood. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. 390. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Los Marqueses De Comillas, 1817-1925: Antonio Y Claudio Lopez. By …
Still Continents (and an Island) with Two Histories
Historians of Latin American slavery will find de la Fuente's article to be a particularly trenchant and learned essay on familiar historiographic controversies. The archival research awakens anticipation for the author's in-depth study of the earlier period of Cuban slavery, much neglected in favor of the heyday of the sugar complex of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Concentrating on the law and “slaves' claims-making” (341) allows…
Backwardness and its discontents
La EspaÒa Ultramarina’: Colonialism and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Spain
This article seeks to introduce colonialism into recent debates over the construction of Spanish nationalism in the nineteenth century. First, it reappraises the importance of the major colonies that Spain maintained in the aftermath of the Spanish American revolutions: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. It shows that Cuba figured significantly in the political economy of Spanish liberalism between two moments of decolonization. Moreover, Spa…
The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century
Puerto Rico 1898: The War after the War
Fernando Picó has made fundamental contributions to the history of Puerto Rico, from broad interpretive surveys to fine-grained studies of work, class, and politics in Utuado, a mountainous coffee district that underwent dramatic social and economic changes in the nineteenth century. Puerto Rico 1898 is the translation of a work that first appeared in Spanish in 1987. It is a study of how Puerto Ricans responded to the North Ameri-can invasion of…
A History of Disasters: Spanish Colonialism in the Age of Empire
Historians have long relegated colonialism to the margins of modern Spanish history. Spain lost the majority of its overseas empire in the Spanish American revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It was a late, reluctant, and small‐scale participant in the partition of Africa. Recent scholarship, however, is bringing colonialism back to the center of Spain's nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article examines these findings and conside…
Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700 (review)
Reviewed by: Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700 Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700. By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Historians of the Atlantic world are committed to looking beyond the boundaries of area studies and to capturing the connections that drew together Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans during the making of New Wo…
Spanish origins of American Empire: Hispanism, history, and commemoration, 1898–1915
Since the end of the cold war, and with particular urgency since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, historians and pundits have searched for parallel cases that make sense of the United States' military and economic predominance in the current international order. Many have chosen the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the most telling. As Dane Kennedy argues in an article recently published in The International…
Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850–1975
Cayeyanos: Familias y solidaridades en la historia de Cayey
In the preface to his book on the people of Cayey, Fernando Picó quickly traces the economic changes that have shaped the town since its founding in the late eighteenth century. Cayey was a center of coffee production and cattle ranching under Spanish rule. The U.S. invasion and the 1899 Hurricane San Ciriaco wiped out the coffee crop, but local planters rebounded by converting to tobacco and sugar. The wars fought by the United States also shape…
Politics and Ideas in Latin American Independence
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