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  • - The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751
    by Stuart B. Schwartz
    £33.99

  • - Religion in Dutch Brazil (1624-1654)
    by Jonathan Israel & Stuart B. Schwartz
    £14.99

    Two renowned experts on religious tolerance in early modern Brazil

  • - A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
    by Stuart B. Schwartz
    £23.49 - 28.99

    A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the CaribbeanThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war.Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean's indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches. He describes how the United States provided the model for responding to environmental threats when it emerged as a major power and began to exert its influence over the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, and how the region's governments came to assume greater responsibilities for prevention and relief, efforts that by the end of the twentieth century were being questioned by free-market neoliberals. Schwartz sheds light on catastrophes like Katrina by framing them within a long and contentious history of human interaction with the natural world.Spanning more than five centuries and drawing on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sea of Storms emphasizes the continuing role of race, social inequality, and economic ideology in the shaping of our responses to natural disaster.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

  • - Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
    by Stuart B. Schwartz
    £17.99

  • - Bahia, 1550-1835
    by Stuart B. Schwartz
    £36.49

    This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia. Professor Schwartz examines this issue through little-used archival sources, plantations accounts, and records. He delves into the larger structure of social and economic relations as well as a comparative perspective elsewhere in the Americas.

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