Essay on Hegel, Marx & Colonialism published

My essay on Hegel's and Marx's views on colonialism and empire has been published by Cambridge University Press in a new book edited by Prof. Sankar Muthu entitled Empire and Political Thought.

Connections After Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

I am pleased to announce that Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s, which I've co-edited with Dr. Matthew Brown of the University of Bristol, will be published by the University of Alabama Press by the end of this year (it is presently in page proof stage). Here is a link to the Alabama webpage with more information. It also may be pre-ordered via Amazon.

The book emerges from the "Re-thinking the 1820s" symposium that Dr. Brown and I co-organized in May 2009. Additional essays on the topic may be found in the special issue of European History Quarterly we guest-edited in July 2011.

Bicentenary of the 1812 Spanish Constitution

I've participated in a number of events commemorating the bicentenary of the 1812 Spanish Constitution (better known outside of the U.S. and Britain as the Constitution of Cadiz). I am thrilled to have been asked to participate in a roundtable discussion hosted by the Instituto Cervantes in New York City on May 30! Click here for more info.

Academia.edu and SSRN

I have created an Academia.edu page as well as a SSRN page. The latter provides links to pdf files of some of my journal articles. I continue to update my main website on a regular basis.

My Academia.edu page may be found here.

My SSRN page may be found here.

Interview on Brazil

I was interviewed by The Global Dispatches on February 20, 2012 on contemporary Brazilian politics. It is possible to read the interview here.

Digital Sources on Luso-Brazilian History from the JCB Library

I just completed a wonderful fellowship at the JCB Library. They have made a concerted effort to digitize Luso-Brazilian and Spanish American resources via The Internet Archive. I discuss one of the many jewels in their collection, related to the Brazilian independence period, here.

Bolivarian Times

My friend, colleague, collaborator and fellow historian Matthew Brown, Reader in Latin American History at the University of Bristol, has begun a fascinating initiative to bring together and discuss the exciting new work related to the period (c. 1810-30) culminating in Latin American independence in a blog. It is called Bolivarian Times. I highly recommend it!