Global Merchants in Spanish America: Business...

Migración, bilingüismo, identidad, movimiento y las palabras que las une - estas son algunos temas que vienen a la mente cuando uno abre Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States, (Centro Press, 2023), editada por Carmen Haydée Rivera. En este ...  Show more

En este episodio, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Catedrático de Humanidades de la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, y Alex Rivera Cartagena de la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, conversan sobre Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (Columbia U. Press, 2023) por Ted Striphas, con ...  Show more

Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2023): Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how ...  Show more

The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s (Emerald, 2021) uses a range of empirical evidence and case studies drawn from previously unpublished archival sources to offer one of the first international comparative studies on the transfor ...  Show more

The trans-Atlantic slave trade expanded greatly in the 18th century, growing from a relatively small enterprise to a global business that saw millions of African people clapped in irons, forced to undergo the tortuous Middle Passage and then sold at market in the Americas. Speaki ...  Show more

During the Middle Ages, the Netherlands played a significant role in the emergence of capitalism, which led to the impressive Dutch Golden Age and paved the way for long-term economic growth across Europe.  Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000-1800 (Princeton University P ...  Show more