Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucrière : cell unit of...

Postcolonial readings of the early colonial history of an industrialized border city : legacies of conquest -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/paso del norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border...