Bargains! PROMOTIONS
Bethany Aram is Professor of History at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. She is the author of Queen Juana 'the Mad' (2005) and Leyendas Negras y Doradas en la Conquista de América (2008).
'Centuries before the Panama Canal, traders relied on women to cross the isthmus. Travelers rested in their homes in the Atlantic and Pacific facing ports. Aram's insightful reconstruction of women's lives and choices offers a novel explanation of the opportunities and challenges found at the empire's crossroads.' Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University 'Aram masterfully documents the experiences, agency and power of the women who sustained colonial Panama, with particular attention to actors of Indigenous and African origin. A vital contribution to Panama's history, Anchoring an Empire also provides a new benchmark for scholarship on multiethnic, geostrategically critical spaces throughout the early modern Iberian world.' David Wheat, Michigan State University
