R Grant Kleiser
Biographic Data
| ID | 5642259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Grant Kleiser |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleiser |
| SIGNATURE | KLEISER R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8208-0865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Gold Ounce for Every Throat Cut
Peace in the Banda Oriental, at the borders between the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Río de la Plata region, marks one of the major developments in the political geography of Latin America from 1777-1801, yet the subject has not been studied rigorously. This chapter explores how this peace came about after failing several times previously. Both Spanish and Portuguese colonial agents and policy-makers affected such peace by overcoming res…
Emulating Empires
When the Dutch West Indies Company (WIC) established the free port of Willemstad, Curaçao after 1674, they launched a model for economic competition that other European empires would emulate. Within a century, the Danish, Spanish, British, and French all established their own Caribbean free ports. Emulation, however, was not replication. This article argues that while the expansion of free ports into different Caribbean empires generated similar …
Renaud Morieux. The Society of Prisoners
While many scholars have followed in the footsteps of Michel Foucault, Gresham Sykes, and Erving Goffman in studying the history of prisons and prisoners, few historians have analyzed these concepts from the perspective of international law or war captivity. Renaud Morieux’s The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century seeks to address this gap through a transnational, comparative approach that examines …
An Empire of Free Ports
The Free Port Act of 1766 was an important reform in British political economy during the so-called imperial crisis between the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) and the American Revolution (1775–1783). In an explicit break from the letter if not the spirit of the Navigation Acts, the act opened six British ports in the West Indies (two in Dominica and four in Jamaica) to foreign merchants trading in a highly regulated number of goods subject to vario…
An Empire of Free Ports
The Free Port Act of 1766 was an important reform in British political economy during the so-called imperial crisis between the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) and the American Revolution (1775–1783). In an explicit break from the letter if not the spirit of the Navigation Acts, the act opened six British ports in the West Indies (two in Dominica and four in Jamaica) to foreign merchants trading in a highly regulated number of goods subject to vario…
An Empire of Free Ports
The Free Port Act of 1766 was an important reform in British political economy during the so-called imperial crisis between the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) and the American Revolution (1775–1783). In an explicit break from the letter if not the spirit of the Navigation Acts, the act opened six British ports in the West Indies (two in Dominica and four in Jamaica) to foreign merchants trading in a highly regulated number of goods subject to vario…
Emulating Empires
When the Dutch West Indies Company (WIC) established the free port of Willemstad, Curaçao after 1674, they launched a model for economic competition that other European empires would emulate. Within a century, the Danish, Spanish, British, and French all established their own Caribbean free ports. Emulation, however, was not replication. This article argues that while the expansion of free ports into different Caribbean empires generated similar …
Renaud Morieux. The Society of Prisoners
While many scholars have followed in the footsteps of Michel Foucault, Gresham Sykes, and Erving Goffman in studying the history of prisons and prisoners, few historians have analyzed these concepts from the perspective of international law or war captivity. Renaud Morieux’s The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century seeks to address this gap through a transnational, comparative approach that examines …
A Gold Ounce for Every Throat Cut
Peace in the Banda Oriental, at the borders between the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Río de la Plata region, marks one of the major developments in the political geography of Latin America from 1777-1801, yet the subject has not been studied rigorously. This chapter explores how this peace came about after failing several times previously. Both Spanish and Portuguese colonial agents and policy-makers affected such peace by overcoming res…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)