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Slavery, Race and Conquest in the Tropics : Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America / Robert E. May

Review Date:

22 Jan 2015

Most canonical interpretations of the American Civil War revolve around some facet of the great national contest over the status and future of slavery in the western territories.

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World 1807-1844 / Manuel Barcia

Review Date:

14 May 2014

In the last two decades a series of publications on Africa in (Latin) America (1), the role of enslaved African soldiers in slave uprisings and the slave revolution in Haiti (2), and the independence movements of Latin America (3) have been published.

Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: US Protest and Central American Revolution / Nick Witham

Review Date:

16 Jun 2016

Early in 2015, journalists reporting on US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders produced a potentially valuable nugget of opposition research: in 1985, Sanders visited Nicaragua as part of a delegation of US solidarity groups that was given a personal audience with Sandinista president Daniel Ortega.(1) In his first political memoir, published with Verso Bo