Jalil Sued-Badillo is Professor and Chairperson of the General Social Sciences Department (Interdisciplinary Studies) at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Pieter C. Emmer is Professor of the History of the Expansion of Europe at the University of Leiden. Franklin Knight is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. Manual Moreno Fraginals holds a Ph.D. as an historian and economist. Bridget Brereton is Professor of History at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad. B.W. Higman is the William Keith Hancock Professor of Aust...