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2020
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Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century.The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is contextualized not merely as a Spanish settlement connected to New Spain via America, but instead within Southeast Asia, situated between the Chinese and the Sulú Seas, and located in t...
A Fortified Sea
The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
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- Pedro Cruz FreireMaría Mercedes Fernández MartínManuel Gámez CasadoAaron GrahamFrancisco Javier Herrera GarcíaNuria Hinarejos MartínIgnacio J. López-HernándezPedro LuengoAlfredo J. MoralesJosé Miguel Morales FolgueraJuan Miguel Muñoz CorbalánGene Allen Smith Jr.Jesús María Ruiz Carrasco Jr.Germán Segura García Jr.Mónica Cejudo Collera Jr.Christopher K. Waters Jr.
2024
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WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S 2025 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDA multinational, interdisciplinary study illuminating how fortifications reshaped the Caribbean as a contested imperial borderland in the eighteenth century.A Fortified Sea illuminates the key role of military forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century. The historical Caribbean, with its multiple contested boundaries at the per...

