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The Pirate as Conquistador: Plunder and Politics in the Making of the British Empire
By
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Pirate or privateer? In practice, identical, but in terms of legal and social standing, the designations were considered worlds away in the contested waters of the North Atlantic. How did sanctioned privateering transition over time to being considered lawless pirating? 
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Tenochtitlan Becomes Mexico: Rulers, Commoners, and the Petitioning State
By
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
After the conquest, Tenochtitlan became Mexico, but the city remained predominantly indigenous. As a viceregal capital and global commercial hub, Mexico City underwent profound changes as ethnic newcomers from Oaxaca to Manila elbowed out the Nahua from their barrios, and Aztec systems of water management survived even as dikes and canals were modified.
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Iberia and the American Colonial State: Paperwork, Archives, and Fictional Claims
By
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
In both the Iberian Peninsula and the New World, the archive played a central role in the creation of borders. Through the alchemy of litigation and treaty mediation, the paperwork of fictional claims was transformed into lines on the ground.  
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On Early Modern European Political Theory and African Slavery
By
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Offering a provocative critique of the unspoken liberal underpinning of historiography on slavery, Herman Bennett's new study is addressed to Europeanists who have ignored the centrality of slavery to early modern political theory.
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Whence Newton in the Seventeenth-Century Afro-American Tropics?
By
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Maligned in popular conceptions of the history of medicine, Afro-American religious healers in early modern Cartagena played a constructive role in the development of an science that privileged empiricism over dogma in Pablo Gómez's new study, The Experiential Caribbean. 
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