Sponsored Research

at the

John Carter Brown Library

 

Publications by Fellows

through March 2007

based in whole or in part

on research at the Library

 

Compiled by

Adelina Azevedo Axelrod

 

 

 

The history of the John Carter Brown Library fellowship program is briefly recounted in I Found It at the JCB: Scholars and Sources, Published on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Founding of the John Carter Brown Library (Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1996).

 

 

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With Gratitude toward Those Whose Contributions to the Library Have Made the JCB Fellowship Program Possible

 

Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation
The Associates of the John Carter Brown Library
Mr. C. Waller Barrett
Mr. Thomas F. Black III
Maury A. Bromsen
Dr. and Mrs. Alfredo Cassiet
Dorot Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Ekstrom
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Mrs. Penelope HartlandThunberg
Horace A. and S. Ella Kimball Foundation
Lampadia Foundation
Fundación Mapfre America
The Andrew E. Mellon Foundation
The National Endowment for the Humanities
Mr. R. David Parsons
Mr. William S. Reese
Mrs. Jane Gregory Rubin
Mr. Richard A. Salomon
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Shea
Mr. Clinton I. Smullyan, Jr.
Mr. James M. Stuart and family
Tinker Foundation
The Touro National Heritage Trust
Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor
Mr. Charles H. Watts II

 

 

PREFACE

COMPILATIONS IN PRINT such as the present work were distributed by the Library in 1991, 1995, 1998, and 2001, four editions in all. The fourth edition was about four times the size of the first. The Library is currently appointing about thirty research fellows a year; so the number of contributors grows steadily. For this reason, it is no longer practical for the JCB to distribute "Publications by Fellows" on paper. Since the summer of 2003, the work has been maintained in this electronic version only.

 

This compilation is a useful general bibliography of secondary sources for anyone interested in the Atlantic world during the centuries that fall within the JCB’s purview. Add a subject index to this compilation, and one would have a substantial and significant, if haphazard, survey of recent scholarship on the colonial Americas, North and South, before 1825.

 

Publications accumulate by former fellows at the JCB, but it would be naive to assume that "knowledge" of any particular subject is also growing cumulatively. The world is always learning more about the past, but is also capable of forgetting a great deal, and historical and literary scholarship, in contrast to the exact sciences, is as much about interpretation and argument as it is about increasing the number of retrievable facts.

 

For some fields, e.g., the history of the African experience in the New World, it is evident that the breadth and depth of our understanding has grown enormously in the past half century. For other fields (say, diplomatic history), that is less clearly the case, and one might even argue the opposite. All of the scholars represented here are raising imaginative new questions about the past, and about the very process by which we remember it.  Asking the right questions can be more important than finding the answers.

 

The sheer quantity of a scholar's output counts for a lot in the academic world, but at the JCB, quality remains our supreme criterion. To make a name, one must publish exemplary work in a field, whether the discipline is history, anthropology, or one of the national literatures. Although we indiscriminately list here what we have been given, what sets this bibliography apart is that the quality of the works cited is uniformly high. The writing represented herein is after all the product of people who have been selected in a tough competition to be JCB fellows.

 

We like to think of JCB fellows as members of the Library's extended family. Hence, we take vicarious pleasure in the scholarly accomplishments registered here. We also take pride in the rich and constantly growing holdings of the Library that contribute to such a wide array of research. This is a library that was created specifically for scholarship, not only because of the wealth of material in it but above all because of its concentration and depth.

 

The list is compiled from the information given to us by former fellows. Mrs. Adelina Azevedo Axelrod takes this data— submitted in eight or ten different languages— and skillfully shapes it with an eye to consistency. It is quite a labor, but obviously we feel it is worth doing. It justifies the Library's existence as a center of advanced research, and something more— a temple of learning, open to writers and scholars from all nations, uniting past and present in their collective enterprise.

 

Those consulting this list should note that the publications listed here by no means represent a particular scholar’s whole output. It is a list only of publications related specifically to research at the JCB.

 

Ted Widmer

Director and Librarian

March 2007

 

 

 

 

Publications by Fellows

 

* Indicates NEH Fellow

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Abercrombie, Thomas A. (2000–01). “Mothers and Mistresses of the Urban Bolivian Public Sphere: Postcolonial Predicament and National Imaginary in Oruro’s Carnival,” in Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero, eds., After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 176–220.

 

“La perpetuidad traducida: del ‘debate’ al Taqui Onqoy y una rebelión comunera peruana,” in Jean-Jacques Decoster, ed., Incas e Indios Cristianos: Elites Indígenas e Identidades Cristianas en los Andes Coloniales (Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas, 2002), 79–114.

 

Adorno, Rolena (1985–86). “Reescribiendo las crónicas: culturas criollas y poscolonialidad,” in José A. Mazzotti, ed., Agencias Criollas: la ambigüedad ‘colonial’ en las letras hispanoamericanas (Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000), 177–190.

 

_____ and Patrick Charles Pautz. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 3 vols.

 

“The Genesis of Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala's: Nueva corónica y buen gobierno,” Colonial Latin American Review, II, nos. 1-2 (1993), 53–92.

 

“Introduction,” to Irving A. Leonard, Books of the Brave, 2nd. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ix–xl.

 

The Intellectual Life of Bartolomé de Las Casas (New Orleans: Graduate School of Tulane University, 1992).

 

“The Negotiation of Fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios,” Representations, 33 (winter 1991),163–199.

 

_____ and Kenneth J. Andrien, eds., Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).

 

Cronista y Príncipe. La Obra de don Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, 1989).

 

_____ and Walter D. Mignolo, (guest eds.). Dispositio, XIV, nos. 36–38, (1989).

 

“Colonial Spanish American Literary Studies: 19821992,” Revista Iberoamericana de Bibliografía, XXXVIII, no. 2 (1988).

 

“Discourses on Colonialism: Bernal Díaz, Las Casas, and the Twentieth-Century Reader,” MLN, CIII, no. 2 (March 1988).

 

“Literary Production and Suppression: Reading and Writing about Amerindians in Colonial Spanish America,” Dispositio, X, nos. 28–29 (1986), 1–25.

 

Aguirre, Robert (1999–00). Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).

 

“William Bullock: 1773–1849): Traveler and Museum Curator,” in The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, eds., Karen Racine and Beatrice Gallotti Mamigonian (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2004).

 

“Mexico in 1824: The Consequences of Freedom,” in Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Memory, Community, and (post) Modernity, ed., Walter Edwards, et. al. (Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2004). 

 

“Exhibiting Degeneracy: The Aztec Children and the Ruins of Race,” Victorian Review, IXXX, no. 2 (2003).

 

“Annihilating the Distance: Panoramas and the Conquest of Mexico, 1822–1848,” Genre: Forms of Discourse, XXXV, no. 1 (2002).

 

Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de (2002–03). “Le versant brésilien de l’Atlantique-Sud: 1550–1850.” Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, LXI, no. 2 (mars-avril 2006), 339–382.

 

Alvarez Cuartero, Izaskun (1997–98). Memorias de la Ilustracion (Madrid: Real Sociedad Economicas de Amigos del Pais en Cuba), 1783–1832.

 

Arbell, Mordechai (1993–94). “Curaçao the ‘Mother’ of the Jewish Communities in the Caribbean,” Etmol (Yad Ben-Svi: Jerusalem).

 

“Dicionario do Judaismo Português – articles on Região des Caraibes, Pomeroon/Pauroma, Haiti, Tucacas, Barbados, Santo Eustaquio, Nevis, Ilhas Virgenes (S. Tomas, Santa Cruz, J. João), Madras, (India), Manila (Filipinas), Coro (Venezuela), Barranquilla (Colombia), Republica Dominicana, America Central (Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador), Panama, Martinica e Guadalupe, Cayenne, Jamaica, Suriname, Curaçao. (Lisbon: Editorial Presenca).

 

“Jewish Women in the Carribean and the Guianas,” Jewish Wome: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. (Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing, 2007).

 

“Las comunidades judias en la cuenca del Caribe,” Guia biografica del Judaísmo Latino Americano, 2nd ed. (2004), 37–41.

 

“Daniel Lopez Laguna,” Los Muestros (Brussels), LXV (June 2004), 41–41.

 

“Salomon Avraam Rosanes, istoriador de los Djudios del Imperio Ottomano,” Aki Yerushalayim, XXV, no. 74 (Jerusalem, 2004), 20–23.

 

“Jews in the Virgin Islands,” Etmol, XXVIII, no. 169 (Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, May 2003), 18–21.

 

“Los Sefardis del Caribe i el Esklavaje,” Aki Yersushalayim, XXIV, no. 72 (Jerusalem, 2003), 5–8.

 

The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean – Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2002).

 

“Jews in Jamaica,” Etmol, XXIV, no. 164 (Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 2003), 14–19.

 

“Only a Few Jews Were Slave Owners in the Caribbean, ” Gesher (Jerusalem), XXXXVIII, no. 146, (winter 2002), 55–66.

 

“Portuguese Jews Pioneers of Cocoa and Vanilla Production in South America and the Caribbean , Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,” Los Muestros (Brussels), no. 46 (March 2002), 15–19.

 

La Cómoda Desaparción – Lecciones de la experiencia judía en el Caribe (Jerusalem: Institute of the World Jewish Congress, 2001).

 

“Jewish Settlements in the French Colonies in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cayenne), and the ‘Black Code,’” in Paulo Bernardini and Norman Fiering, eds., The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800, (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2001), 287–314.

 

“El Asentamiento de Judios Caribenos en Paises Liberados de España: Colombia y la Republica Dominicana,” Coloquio (Buenos Aires), suplemento no. 2 (2001), 2–14.

 

“England – Netherlands Competition in Settling Spanish-Portuguese Jews on the Wild Coast of the Guianas in the 17th Century, ” Judaica Latinomamericana IV (Jerusalem: Amilat and Union Mundial de Estudios Judaicos, 2001), 11–21.

 

“Failure of the Jewish Settlement in Tobago,” in Latin American Jewry: Essays in Honor of Haim Avni (Jerusalem: Amilat and Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, 2001), 19–31.

 

“Les Juifs Sefarades des Antilles et le Sucre (Barbade, Surinam, Cayenne, Pomeroon, Martinique),” Los Muestros, no. 42 (March 2001), 20–25.

 

“Los Sefaradis de Jamaica,” Aki Yersushalayim, XXII no. 65 (Jerusalem, 2001), 19–13.

 

“Los Sefardis i la Produksión de Asukar,” Aki Yersushalayim, XXII, no. 66 (Jerusalem, 2001), 9–12.

 

“Discovered America. The Haham Karigal,” Etmol, XXV, no. 152 (September 2000), 30–32.

 

“Early Relations Between the Jewish Communities in the Caribbean and the Guianas and Those of the Near East – 17th to 19th Centuries,” Los Muestros, no. 38 (March 2000), 31–36.

 

The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica (Jamaica: Canoe Press, University of the West Indies, 2000).

 

Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the Caribbean and the Guianas: A Bibliography (New York: InterAmericas; Providence, R.I.: The John Carter Brown Library, 2000).

 

“A Colonização por Judeus Portugueses do Brazil Holandês em Cayenne (Atual Guiana Francesa),” en Nome da Fe – Arquivo Historico Judaico Brasileiro (São Paulo, 1999), 35–46.

 

“Filatelia Sefaradi,” Iber Caja (Zaragoza, 1999), 98.

 

“Jerusalem on the Riverside,” Etmol, Ben Zvi Institute, vol. 25, no. 149 (November 1999), 3–6.

 

“Jews on the Golden Rock, St. Eustatius,” Etmol, Ben Zvi Institute,vol. 29 (Jerusalem, 1999), 3–6.

 

“Leghorn: Center of Immigration of the Sefaradic Jews to America, 17th Century,” Los Muestros, no. 36 (Brussels, 1999), 19–23.

 

“Los Judios de Martinica y Guadalupe,” in Encuentro y Alteridad, Vida y Cultura Judia en American Latina (México: Universidad Autónoma de México, 1999), 46–57.

 

“Return to Judaism: The Circumcisers of Curaçao,” Shofar: The Journal of Jewish Studies, XVIII, no. 1 (University of Nebraska, 1999), 4–8.

 

“The Sephardim of the Island of Nevis,” Los Muestros, no. 35 (Brussels, 1999), 36–39.

 

“The Settlement of the Spanish Portuguese Jews of the Caribbean in the Liberated Spanish Colonies in Latin-America,” The Proceedings of the 10th British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, (University of London, 1999), 109–118.

 

“Comfortable Disappearance, Lessons from the Caribbean Jewish Experience,” (Institute of the World Jewish Congress, 1998), 93.

 

“Los Judios de las Indias Occidentales Danésas, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, de las Islas Virgenes," Coloquio, no. 29 (Buenos Aires: Latin American Jewish Congress, 1998), 39–55.

 

“The Portuguese Jews of Barbados,” Nova Renascença, XVII (Spring-Autumn 1998), 353–385.

 

“The Failure of the Jewish Settlement in Tobago,” Judaica Latinoamericana, III (Jerusalem, 1997), 9–21.

 

“Los Judios Portugueses de Barbados,” Peamim, Ben Zvi Institute, no. 76, (Jerusalem, 1997), 9–30. (Hebrew)

 

“Rediscovering Tucacas,” American Jewish Archives, XLVIII, no. 1 (Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1996), 35–43.

 

“The Jewish Settlement in Pomeroon/Paroma (Guyana), 1657–1666,” Revue des Etudes Juives, CLIV, nos. 3–4 (Paris, 1995), 343–361.

 

Armitage, David (1990–91). Greater Britain, 1516–1776: Essays in Atlantic History (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate-Variorum, 2004).

 

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Received the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award for 2000.

 

“Making the Empire British: Scotland in the Atlantic World 1542–1707,” Past and Present, no. 155 (May 1997), 34–63.

 

“The Darien Venture,” in Scotland and the Americas: 1600 to 1800 (Providence, R.I.: The John Carter Brown Library, 1995), 3–13.

 

“John Milton: Poet Against Empire,” in Armand Himy and Quentin Skinner, eds., Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge, 1995).

 

“The New World and British Historical Thought: From Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson,” in Karen Ordahl Kupperman, ed., America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1995).

 

“The Scottish Vision of Empire: Intellectual Origins of the Darien Venture,” in John Robertson, ed., A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707 (Cambridge: England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 97–118.

 

“'The Projecting Age': William Paterson and the Bank of England,” History Today, XXXXIV, no. 6 (June 1994), 5–10.

 

“Christopher Columbus and the Uses of History,” History Today, XXXXII, no. 5 (May 1992), 50–55.

 

“The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Languages of Empire,” The Historical Journal, XXXV, no. 3 (1992), 531–555.

 

“The Procession Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I: A Note on a Tradition,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LIII (1990), 301–307.

 

Arzápalo Marín, Ramón (1988–89). “Las actitudes de mayas y europeos durante los primeros encuentros,” Revista de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, LII, nos. 560–561 (México, septiembre-octubre, 1997).

 

“The Main Characteristics of the Religious and Literary Language of the Ancient Mayas,” in Mary H. Preuss, ed., Beyond Indigenous Voices: LAILA/ALILA 11th International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures (1994), (McKeesport, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996), 9–13.

 

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