@diegojavierluis.bsky.social
History professor at Johns Hopkins University. Author of the "The First Asians in the Americas." Co-creator of "The Historian's Table" podcast. Designer of a board game in development called "Obraje." Avid fencer.
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Diego Luis (@diegojavierluis.bsky.social) argues that the novelty of transpacific empire affected Mexico’s Indigenous peoples.
#PacificOean #Spain #empire #Mexio #colonialism #repartimiento #indigenous #labour #earlymodern #Dutch
Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
It should terrify everyone that a green card holder was black bagged and disappeared to Louisiana simply for having opinions this administration dislikes. They're building the prisons and camps to do it to citizens. The time to stand up to this is now.
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@diegojavierluis.bsky.social was there, too! Here he is with his book, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History.
Read more: tinyurl.com/5d5tw9n4
Book cover with various kinds of evidence of family history arrayed around the author and title, the latter is _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_. The kinds of materials include printed texts, manuscripts, a red book (shhhhh that figures largely in the Introduction!), a watercolor family record, Fraktur, gravestone, and a sampler. One repeated text says "born free, born free (etc)"
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
28.12.2024 11:26 — 👍 1224 🔁 197 💬 98 📌 45
Will you attend the AHA conference in NYC? If so, and you are interested in mobility, political negotiation, and resistance in the early modern Iberian world, please attend my panel, “Global Mobilities,” with Jane Landers, Diego Luis, and Juanma Ramirez on January 3 at 1:30 pm! @historians.org
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The image is the cover of the book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic by Cambridge University Press.
✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Ever wondered how a historian’s life experiences influence why and how they study the past?
The FULL first season of The Historian’s Table is out and available everywhere you get your podcasts!
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A great time to preorder The Trouble of Color - at 30% off! Thanks for your support! bit.ly/3UWjzvq
19.11.2024 21:56 — 👍 60 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 2
Book haul from Ann Arbor 📚
Ready for winter.
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30% off The First Asians in the Americas!—and other delights from HUP
29.11.2024 15:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Isaac! I somehow managed to avoid Twitter all these years so figured if we’re all starting over I might as well jump aboard ⛵️
29.11.2024 04:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next up on the reading list 🤓
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I am a historian of colonial Latin America and the Pacific World. My book uncovers the stories of free and enslaved Asians who crossed the Pacific and arrived in the Americas from 1565 to 1815.
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