The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World
Edited by Danna A. Levin Rojo and Cynthia Radding
Abstract
This collaborative Oxford Handbook of Borderlands in the Iberian World integrates interdisciplinary approaches to illustrate the historical processes that produced borderlands in the Americas and connected them to global circuits of exchange and migration in the early modern world, extending from the fifteenth to the nineteenth-centuries. It brings together specialists in the Spanish and Portuguese imperial spheres, their geographic and cultural borderlands in both South and North America, and their maritime networks across the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its objectives emphasize (1) scholarship published in Latin America as well as new research published in diverse academic communities; (2) transdisciplinary research in fields such as ecology, archaeology, art history, geography, musicology, and anthropology that inform the current field of borderlands scholarship; (3) accessible language and imagery to make this work appeal widely to students, teachers, and scholars. “Borderlands” as a concept and a field of academic inquiry has opened new dimensions of interdisciplinary and critical thought in the last quarter-century at the same time that ethnohistorical approaches to imperialism and colonialism have produced critical analyses of European imperial spheres in the Americas and other world regions. This Handbook offers new research on environmental change, powerful indigenous federations in both North and South America, gendered histories in the mixed and volatile social fabrics of borderlands, indigenous enslavement and the complex degrees of difference between freedom and bondage, Afro-descendant populations in the Spanish and Portuguese borderlands, interethnic relations, and cultural productions in the arts and sciences.
Keywords:
New Spain,
Brazil,
Central and South America,
Philippines,
Environment,
Forced labor,
Indian allies/conquerors,
Trans-Oceanic trade,
Catholic global networks,
Missions,
Religious art and music,
Cartography,
Ethnogenesis,
Presidios,
Mining industry
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Dec 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199341771
- Published online:
- Nov 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.001.0001
Editors
Danna A. Levin Rojo,
editor
Danna A. Levin Rojo, Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Campus Azcapotzalco, México, received a BA degree in history from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. Her research interests include transculturation in the Spanish American colonial borderlands and interethnic relations in the United States Southwest, with emphasis on contemporary New Mexico. She is the author of Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México (2014) and coeditor, among other books, of Las vías del noroeste III: genealogías, transversalidades y convergencias (2011) and Los grupos nativos del septentrión novohispano ante la independencia de México, 1810–1847 (2010).
Cynthia Radding,
editor
Cynthia Radding is the Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching on Iberoamerican frontiers during the colonial and early national periods focus on the intersection of environmental and social history through interdisciplinary methodologies. Her publications include Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic (2005); she is co-editor with Paul Readman and Chad Bryant of Borderlands in World History (Palgrave, 2014). Radding has published articles in Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, Boletín Americanista, and Latin American Research Review as well as numerous chapters in collaborative publications in Mexico, Bolivia, the U.S., and Europe.
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