My article on the Slave Trade in National Geographic Historia, published December 2014

I am very pleased that my article on the Transatlantic Slave Trade was published in December in National Geographic Historia, which is published in Spain (and in Spanish). Here is the link

Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Conference 2015 (Baltimore)

Together with my colleague Prof. Erin Rowe, I am hosting the 2015 ASPHS Annual Meeting at Johns Hopkins in March 2015. The exact dates are March 19-22. Further information (the CFP, Hotel Information etc.) may be found on the ASPHS site.

I hope to see you in Baltimore!

Publication of History of European Ideas Special Issue

I am delighted to announce the publication of the special issue of History of European Ideas on "Liberalism in the Early Nineteenth-century Iberian World". 

It was a honor to serve as the editor of this issue, which included the work of some of my favorite historians!

ToC 

Special Issue of History of European Ideas: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rhei20#.U4y77ErcA2w

 

Gabriel Paquette, ‘Introduction: Liberalism in the Early Nineteenth-century Iberian World’.

Javier Fernández Sebástian, ‘A Distorting Mirror: The Sixteenth Century in the Historical Imagination of the First Hispanic Liberals’.

Brian R. Hamnett, ‘The Reception of Romanticism in Italy and Spain: Parallels and Contrasts’.

Nuno G. Monteiro, ‘Mouzinho da Silveira and the political culture of Portuguese liberalism 1820-1832’.

Gregorio Alonso, ‘“A great people struggling for their liberties”: Spain and the Mediterranean in the eyes of the Benthamites’.

Proyectos Ilustrados: La Herencia Historiográfica in 20/10

I am pleased to announce that my essay has been published in the Mexican series 20/10

It is entitled "Proyectos Ilustrados: La Herencia Historiográfica" and was published in volume 2 (December 2013).

My review of Stites, The Four Horsemen, in the TLS (May 9, 2014)

My review of Richard Stites' brilliant, posthumously published The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe (Oxford UP, 2014) is in the May 9 issue of the Times Literary Supplement.

Imperial Portugal in Paperback!

I am delighted to report that Imperial Portugal is now available as a paperback! Here is the Amazon link !

Atlantic Crossings Series

I am pleased to announce that I am now an area advisory editor for the series "Atlantic Crossings", published by the University of Alabama Press. A link to the series may be found here

Please consider submitting a proposal. We hope to feature monographs and edited volumes related to the South Atlantic as well as the North Atlantic in the series.