My pleasure! I only wish that it had fallen into my hands a few weeks earlier. I am teaching an early modern Spain course this semester and I would have loved to have put this on the syllabus.

A very welcome challenge to rethink standard elements of the historiography

Congrats! I am excited to read this.

Warren Dean, With Broad Ax and Firebrand [on Brazil]. Depending on how you angle the class, Greg Grandin's Fordlandia book might fit. It is a pleasant read.

Hello, Bluesky! I am new to the platform and eager to figure out what it's capable of -- and where the people are!