Writing the Wrongs of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Slavery and Antislavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, published June 2013, offers a wide-ranging view of the Spanish slave trade, from Caribbean trafficking to Spanish antislavery protests. Editors Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara speak to the trials and rewards of editing the collection of work, their influences, and a prediction of what will be the future important studies in the field.

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Berghahn Books: What drew each of you to the study of the Spanish empire’s Atlantic holdings?

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Hot Off the Presses – New Book Releases

SilvermanPalimpsesticNewly released titles from Berghahn’s film studies, cultural studies, and anthropology lists:

Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities, Hariz Halilovich

The Colours of the Empire: Racialized Representations During Portuguese Colonialism, Patrícia Ferraz de Matos

The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent, Suzanne Rinner

Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film, Max Silverman