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Laird W. Bergad
 

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Director, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
Academic Affiliation: Professor, Herbert H. Lehman
Office phone: 212-817-8438
E-Mail: LBergad@gc.cuny.edu

Field of Scholarship

Latin America & Caribbean

Selected Publications


The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).


Escravidão e História Econômica: Demografía de Minas Gerais,1720-1888
(São Paulo: EDUSC, 2004).


Slavery and the Economic and Demographic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) 298 pp.


The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
(co-author with Fe Inglesias Garcia and Maria del Carmen Barcia) (Cambridge University Press, 1995).


Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Socialand Economic History of Monoculture in Matanzas
(Princeton University Press, 1990).


Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth
Century Puerto Rico (Princeton University Press, 1983).

 

 

 

 
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