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02/09/2024

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘅 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲

Last month, Brill Authors Kyle Edwards and August Nimtz Jr were holding a conversation with Jared Ball on his YouTube channel Black Liberation Media/ iMWiL about their forthcoming book: "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution".

Watch it here: 🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O3R6KisZnk

To the book: 📕 brill.ws/EdwardsNimtz

08/08/2024

This book presents papers by eleven European scholars that explore the ambivalent representations of an American West that follows “no single trajectory, creating instead a series of lines and rhythms, always moving, crossing, and folding” (Neil Campbell). http://brill.ws/EAAS10_

12/07/2024

Out now!

👉 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰, 𝟭𝟳𝟳𝟬-𝟭𝟴𝟲𝟬
Advocacy, Conceptualization, Institutionalization

Merrill. D. Whitburn analyzes the advocacy, conceptualization, and institutionalization of rhetoric from 1770 to 1860. Among the forces promoting advocacy was the need for oratory calling for independence, the belief that using rhetoric was the way to succeed in biblical interpretation and preaching, and the desire for rhetoric as entertainment.

Learn more via 📚 brill.ws/Whitburn

09/07/2024

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵-𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀

Starting in Louisiana in the early nineteenth century, Julie Rocheton takes the reader on a journey through the USA and the development of their civil codes. This book examines their origin stories, circulation, and usage by focusing on the social-historical context of their drafting and legal concepts.

To the book: brill.ws/Rocheton

05/07/2024

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24/06/2024

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦–𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Today, globalisation has entered a critical phase of slowdown. The asymmetrical - relationship that has been the fundamental axis up to now has entered into crisis. This book by Raffaele Sciortino offers a comprehensive analysis of the looming confrontation, while identifying potential points of no return in the intertwined dynamics of the world market, configurations, and relationships. Will there be a ? Is a order realistic?

Learn more here: ➡️ brill.ws/Sciortino

12/06/2024

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘂 - 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻

This is the first work exploring the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and legacy of the insurgency in the region of , , one of Peru’s most impoverished and Quechua-speaking regions. The use of terroristic violence to implement a revolutionary and exclusivist ideology was without precedent in Latin America, presaging later movements such as ISIS. Integrating interviews, testimonials, survey data and the vast primary and secondary literature on the insurgency, Nicholas A. Robins examines how Huancavelican communities experienced and continue to shoulder the consequences of an exterminatory conflict thirty years after the insurgency was largely, although not entirely, defeated.

Learn more here: 👉 brill.ws/Robins

28/05/2024

𝗔 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 - 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Spanning from Brazil to India, this book edited by David Salomoni traces the extensive reach of Jesuit influence and reveals how their teachings fostered an early consciousness of a globally interconnected world in European education. It illuminates the sophisticated educational systems that shaped Renaissance Milan's merchants and the education of cantors in royal courts and cathedrals.

Contributors include Bradley Blankemeyer, Laura Madella, Jessica Ottelli, Federico Piseri, David Salomoni, and Carolina Vaz de Carvalho.

Learn more here: 👉 brill.ws/Salomoni

23/05/2024

Available now: Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, Part 4: Music. Scanned at Casa de las Américas, Havana, this online research collection provides unique access to 1,163 folders of primary source material documenting the history of music, not only that of Cuba and the Caribbean, but also of Latin America as a whole and even beyond. The files cover music festivals, music theory and criticism, and individual artists, and track the rise of the Protest Song, the New Latin American Song (“nueva canción”) and the Cuban “nueva trova”. Within Latin America, especially Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico are well represented.

www.brill.com/musi

13/05/2024

15/04/2024

𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀!

📚 We're proud to announce the newest addition to our History portfolio: the e-Journal of Portuguese History! 📚

Established in 2002 through a partnership between the University of Porto and Brown University, this journal has been a trailblazer in its field, always leading the way with its exclusive electronic format.

Diving into the history of Portuguese-speaking societies, it explores topics across different contexts and geographies.

The e-JPH actively promotes transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and thus welcomes contributions with a historical orientation from the different social sciences.

De Gruyter Brill looks forward to continuing publishing this prestigious journal.

Find out more here: ➡️ brill.ws/EJPH_

04/03/2024

21/02/2024

Daniella Berman at the CAA Advancing Art & Design conference in Chicago, proudly showing the book "Duke House and the Making of Modern New York"of which she is an editor.

Taking the James B. Duke House, now home to NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, as its point of departure, this collection provides fresh perspectives on domestic spaces, urban forms, and social reforms that shaped early-twentieth century New York into the modern city we know today. ➡️ brill.ws/DUKEhouse

15/02/2024

📚 Honoring Black History Month: check Brill's American Studies reading list 📚

In celebration of Black History Month in the U.S. and Canada, we've gathered a collection of Brill publications on Black History from some of our main publishing fields.

Browse around for an interesting overview of relevant research in honor of Black History Month. Click through the book cover images for more information about each title, and add relevant titles to your reading wish list.

➡️ www2.brill.com/Black_History_Month_2024

14/02/2024

Although Jesuit contributions to European expansion in the early modern period have attracted considerable scholarly interest, the legacy of José de Acosta (1540–1600) is still defined by his contributions to natural history. Andrés Prieto’s new book, “The Theologian and the Empire,” presents a new intellectual biography of Acosta, focused on his participation in colonial and imperial politics.

https://brill.com/display/title/60092

31/01/2024

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻' 𝗜𝘁? 𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗮-𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗮, 𝗠𝗰𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝟭𝟴𝟴𝟲–𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱

Through the local history of global companies, Giulia Crisanti's new publication tells a new story about not only the influence of American businesses in Europe but also the influence of European governments and societies on those American businesses and their adaptability.

To the book: brill.ws/CRISANTI

19/01/2024

*New Primary Source Collection*

'Cine Cubano. Latin America’s Oldest Film Magazine' offers unique access to all issues of Cine Cubano that have ever been published in print (205 issues, 1960–2019). Cine Cubano is the official organ of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). It is an essential resource for studying the rich history of both Cuban revolutionary cinema and Latin American cinema at large. Now available online for the first time, Cine Cubano offers students and researchers unparalleled access to six decades of cutting-edge film theory, novel approaches to film making, and scores of film reviews.

30-day institutional trials are now available. Contact [email protected] for info. Find out more about this resource on brill.com/cine.

22/11/2023

** New Issue **

Out now, the concluding 2023 issue of the Journal of Early American History (Vol. 13, No. 2-3): brill.ws/JEAH13-2_3

Table of Contents
Articles
From Scarlet to Gold: Towards Understanding the Circumstances of the Foundation of the Guinea Company in 1618
Lior Blum

No “Terror To Good Works, But To The Evil”: Thomas Prence, Governor of Plymouth Colony, as Godly Magistrate
J. Michel Marcoux

The Jeffersonian Republicans and the Democratic Movement: On the Usage and Conceptualization of the Word Democracy in the USA, 1789–1801
Philip Dingeldey

Book Forum
An Atlantic Slave Trade Stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and Beyond.: A Forum on Alejandro García-Montón, Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700
David Wheat, Xabier Lamikiz, Roberto Zaugg, April Lee Hatfield, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, L.H. Roper, and Alejandro García-Montón

Book Reviews
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, written by Kathryn Gin Lum
David Silverman

Comunicación e Imperio. Proyectos y reformas del correo en Cartagena de Indias (1707–1777), written by Rocío Moreno Cabanillas
Klemens Kaps

En compañía de salvajes. El sujeto indígena en la construcción del otro, written by Izaskun Álvarez Cuartero y Alberto Baena Zapatero
Estela Roselló Soberón

El control de la corrupción en la Monarquía Hispánica. La Casa de la Contratación (1642–1660), written by Alfonso Jesús Heredia López
Kris Lane

Disputas de Altamar. Sir Francis Drake en la polémica española inglesa sobre las Indias, written by María Gracia Ríos Taboada
Jorge Díaz Ceballos

Haiti. The Origins of the State and the Nation, written by Tadeusz Łepkowski
Tomasz Rudowski

La domination comme expérience européenne et américaine à l’époque moderne, edited by David Chaunu and Séverin Duc
Eric Roulet

Graaf en gouverneur. Nederlands-Brazilië onder het bewind van Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, 1636–1644, written by Erik Odegard
Mark Meuwese

The Philosophy of Studying America [Filozofia poznawania Ameryki], written by Andrzej Dembicz
Ewelina Biczyńska

Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies, written by Anna Suranyi
Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber

Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean, written by Philip D. Morgan, J.R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz
Rasmus Christensen

30/10/2023

** Special Issue **

Special Issue of the Journal of Global Slavery on “From Practices to Structurations: German Involvement in Slavery and the Slave Trade”, edited by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Magnus Ressel. Introduction in and two articles. https://brill.ws/JGS8-2_3

Table of Contents
( ) Introduction: From Practices to Structurations: German Involvement in Slavery and the Slave Trade
Magnus Ressel

( ) Return of a Ghost: Slavery and the Law in Early Modern Saxony: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Rebekka von Mallinckrodt

A “Moors’ Lovefeast” and Masked Enslavement in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church
Josef Köstlbauer

Practicing Medicine on Shaky Grounds: German-Speaking Ship’s Doctors Aboard Enslavement Trade Vessels
Sarah Lentz

Silesia, Serfdom, and Slavery: A Relationship History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Anka Steffen

The Hinterland of the Holy Roman Empire and the Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century: An Economic Case Study Based on the Business Ventures of Friedrich Romberg (1729–1819)
Magnus Ressel

) Oldendorp’s “Amina”: Ethnonyms, History, and Identity in the African Diaspora
Sean M. Kelley and Paul E. Lovejoy

( ) Paul E. Lovejoy Prize

Interview
( ) Interview with Michael Lawrence Dickinson, Winner of the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize
Damian Pargas, Ismael Montana, Eric Komlavi Hahonou, and Viola Müller

Book Reviews
Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate , by Jared Ross Hardesty
Robert Colby

Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England , by Urvashi Chakravarty
Jamie Gemmell

Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States , by Leslie M. Alexander
Hunter Samuel Moyler

Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic , by Jennifer L. Morgan
Joshua M. Rosenthal

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity , by Sarah F. Derbew
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

( ) In Memoriam: David Richardson (1946–2023)
Damian Pargas and Ismael Montana

30/10/2023

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀?

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12/10/2023

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29/08/2023

** New Issue**

The Journal of American-East Asian Relations has published a new issue(Vol. 30, No. 3) and contains three articles and two book reviews. Read the Editorial in : brill.ws/3QXZbc1

Table of Contents
( ) Editorial
James I. Matray

Sino-French Normalization and Its Impact on the United States and Taiwan
Qiang Zhai

To Each His Turn … Today Yours, Tomorrow Mine: François Sully’s Turn in History
Nathaniel L. Moir

P’yŏngyang’s Posthumous Hostages: The Repatriation of U.S. Service Members’ Remains from North Korea, 1991–2018
Liu Zhaokun

Book Reviews
William Franklin Sands in Late Chosŏn Korea: At the Deathbed of Empire, written by Wayne Patterson
Daniel C. Kane

Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China, written by Grace C. Huang
Stephen R. MacKinnon

08/06/2023

** New Issue**

Editorial in in the latest issue of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations (Vol. 30, No. 2): https://brill.com/view/journals/jaer/30/2/jaer.30.issue-2.xml

Table of Contents
( ) Editorial
James I. Matray

‘What the Far East Means to America’: The Politics of Area Studies during the Interwar Years
Constance Chen

The Illusion of Neutralism: The Indigenous Third Force and the Filipino Republic from the Late 1940s to the 1950s
Tristan Miguel Osteria

The U.S.-China Trade War and Policy Resilience
Edward Ashbee and Steven Hurst

Book Reviews
Zack Fredman, The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen & the Occupation of China, 1941-1949
Yu Shen

Heonik Kwon and Jun Hwan Park, Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea’s American Century
John G. Grisafi

Kevin Rudd, The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China
Jeffrey Crean

Notes on Contributors

14/04/2023

American intelligence gathering on Russia and Ukraine is, of course, nothing new. Our primary-source collection “Cold War Intelligence: The Secret War Between the U.S. and the USSR, 1945–1991” gives unique insight into how this was done in the twentieth century. Note that the top-secret documents in this collection were declassified, not leaked.

www.brill.com/cwio

12/04/2023

** New Issue**

article and Editorial in in the latest issue of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations (Vol. 30, No. 1): https://brill.com/view/journals/jaer/30/1/jaer.30.issue-1.xml

Table of Contents
(Free access) Editorial
James I. Matray

Articles
U.S.–Japan Economic Contention in Manchukuo: What did Manchukuo’s Economic Control Bring to the U.S.–Japan Relationship?
Hayato Yukawa

(Open Access) In Judgment of Unit 731: A Comparative Study of Medical War Crimes Trials after World War II
Valerie J. Cranmer

Research Note
(Free access) Introduction
Brian P. Walsh

Foreign Minister Tōgō’s Bitter Struggle and the Acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration
Tōgō Kazuhiko

Book Reviews
Naoko Wake, American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Gwyn McClelland

Theodore Jun Yoo, The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided
David A. Tizzard

31/03/2023

The Brazilian historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin America’s underdevelopment through a revolutionary process. Based on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959 Revolution. She narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s — the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime —, and its social and political actors. https://brill.com/display/title/64107

08/03/2023

** New Issue **

In article on “Yellow Fever Epidemics and the Abolition Campaign in West Africa, 1828–1830” by Manuel Barcia, in the latest issue of the Journal of Global Slavery (Vol. 8, No. 1): https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/8/1/jgs.8.issue-1.xml

Table of Contents
The Analytical Concept of Asymmetrical Dependency
Julia Winnebeck, Ove Sutter, Adrian Hermann, Christoph Antweiler, and Stephan Conermann

(Open Access) ‘The Breath of Destruction’: Yellow Fever Epidemics and the Abolition Campaign in West Africa, 1828–1830
Manuel Barcia

Revisiting the Profitability of Slavery: Slave Hiring Rates and the Return on Investments in Slaves in the Antebellum US South
Klas Rönnbäck

Book Reviews
The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade , by Manuel Barcia
Pedro Jimenez Cantisano

Yankees in the Indian Ocean World: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 , by Jane Hooper
Özgül Özdemir

23/02/2023

Comprising a dazzling 3,163 monographs and 576 periodicals on about 3.7 million (!) pages, the CIDOC Collection on the History of Religiosity in Latin America is now available online. Assembled by Ivan Illich (1926–2002) and further developed by Valentina Borremans, this vast and invaluable collection covers religion in all its facets from c.1830 to c.1970. Reproduced from a wide range of libraries throughout Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, this online resource deals with everything religious, from Catholic Church doctrines to local devotions and syncretist rituals, religious iconography and poetry, to the pastoral campaigns of the various churches and sects active in Latin America and the Caribbean.

www.brill.com/cido

16/02/2023

Often identified as one of the most genuine and enduring American film genres, the road movie has never been explored in the context of experimental filmmaking. To fill this gap, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels provides the first book-length study of over eighty unique and often obscure films and videos and situates them within the corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema, so far mostly associated with body genres and sexually explicit films. Drawing on unpublished archival materials, the book offers a fresh take on both past and current practices of the experimental film community for scholars, students, makers and film buffs. https://brill.com/display/title/64181

01/02/2023

Established in 1638 in a vast Amazonian territory that today encompasses border areas of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, the missions of Maynas were one of the Society of Jesus’s main enterprises in Spanish America. Jesuit writings provide a unique insight into the 17th- and 18th-century encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples. In effect, they shed light on how native Amazonians appropriated elements of Christian religiosity and Iberian urban culture. This exciting book by Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho is not only about how indigenous populations experienced life in missions. It is above all a study of how natives actively engaged with the practices and ideas of settlement and religiosity that the Jesuits transmitted.

https://brill.com/display/title/60091