Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
Introduction Scott Eastman and Stephen Jacobson Chapter 1. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (1966–2015): His Work and His Life Stephen Jacobson
Chapter 2. The First Word: Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874 and the Renewal of Spanish Imperial History" Adrian Shubert
Chapter 3. Not Just Spain, Not Just Colonies: Writing Transnational Histories of the Nineteenth Century Joshua Goode
Chapter 4. "Divergent Reflections” on Colonialism and Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic World: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s “The Conquest of History” Dalia Antonia Muller
Chapter 5. Bonds of Affection? The Catholic Church and Slavery in New Spain Emily Berquist Soule
Chapter 6. Questions of Scale: Spain, Latin America, and the Atlantic World in Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Scholarship on Slavery Elena Schneider
Chapter 7. Empire and Anti-Slavery through a New Lens: Spanish Colonialism Seen from the Dominican Republic and Haiti Anne Eller
Chapter 8. Unlocking the Historical Truth of Abolitionist Literature: Beecher Stowe's A Key in Spanish Translation Lisa Surwillo
Chapter 9. Empire and Civil Rights in Franco’s Spain Louie Dean Valencia-García
Chapter 10. “To Make a Language of My Own”: Fernando Blanco White’s Flight to Freedom (1815) Joselyn M. Almeida
Chapter 11. Spanish Prisoners of War and Political Refugees in France, 1808-1820 Juan Luis Simal
Conclusion: The Conquest of History and the Construction of Identitarian Discourses: An Interview with Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Vicent Sanz Rozalén
List of Works by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara