In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain and
Latin America has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with
scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, abolition, race,
identity, and captivity. No scholar better exemplified these
developments than Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, a specialist on Spain and
its Caribbean colonies in Cuba and Puerto Rico. A brilliant career was
cut short in 2015 when he died at the age of 48. Rethinking Atlantic
Empire takes Schmidt-Nowara's work as a point of departure, charting
scholarly paths that move past reductive national narratives and embrace
transnational approaches to the entangled empires of the Atlantic world.