Articles by Alistair Hennessy

• Spain's Invisible Army
  • Alistair Hennessy

  in NLR 63, May-June 2010, pp. 128-139
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Spain
  

  Alistair Hennessy on Ronald Fraser, Napoleon’s Cursed War. Masterly close-quarters account of Spanish popular resistance to the Emperor’s designs, from the author of Blood of Spain.

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  Also available in Spanish
• In the Atlantic Mirror
  • Alistair Hennessy

  in NLR 46, July-August 2007, pp. 130-139
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Latin America and the Caribbean
  

  Alistair Hennessy on J H Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World, 1492–1830. Conquistadors and indigenous peoples, colonists and slaves populate a continental canvas, in a magisterial comparison of British and Spanish imperialism in the Americas.

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• Cuba's Longue Durée
  • Alistair Hennessy

  in NLR 31, January-February 2005, pp. 145-152
  Subjects: Cuba
  

  Alistair Hennessy on Richard Gott, Cuba: A New History. Town and country, race and immigration, revolution and isolation, in Spain’s pearl of the Antilles, from Columbus to the heirs of Castro.

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  Also available in Spanish and Turkish