To the Last Drop
Surveying the agricultural and economic prospects of the Boconó region in the Venezuelan Andes in 1841, Italian geographer Agustin Codazzi ...
A Bittersweet Tale
The discovery and conquest of the New World profoundly altered ecological and human balances. Such alterations had been occurring for ...
Haiti’s Nightmare and the Lessons of History
“The Haitian mind, you know, is just different,” says Robert McCandless, a Washington lobbyist described as “the most vociferous advocate” ...
The Long Night of Slavery
BETWEEN 1518 AND 1873, IN THE LARGEST CO- erced migration in history, the international trade in human beings carried nearly ...
