A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic - Simon P. Newman

Reducere. The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...

Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and p...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of t...

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in ...

The modern-day suburb began in 19th century Britain. As suburbia spread, the 'New Woman' arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt i...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

DescriptionCould slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? I...

Reducere. "NEW YORK TIMES "EDITOR'S CHOICE"SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "RECOMMENDED BOOKWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in t...

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--...

Reducere. DescriptionStillbirth of A Nation is the story of America's birth as a slave nation. Among the author's startling claims are: -Slavery in the Engli...

Reducere. The Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one an...

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while t...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

Reducere. Now in paperback, an intimate, elegant account of a society in turmoil: the most important book in a generation about the Chinese people and their ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the busine...

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Delhi was intended to impress and to encapsulate the values of the British Empire, in other words to project 'soft' power. This book...

Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers ...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage ne...

Dot. compradors. Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry - Jyoti Saraswati

The development of infrastructure to support nuclear power and its safe, secure, peaceful and sustainable application is an issue of central concer...

Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an ...

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply i...

Reducere. How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade sp...

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Leslea NewmanIllustration(s): Full-color illustrations; 3D, tear-out dreidelNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Di...

This timely book explores current trends and future possibilities for undergraduate career education, the nature of the changing workplace, and its...

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, ...

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

After more than three decades of average annual growth close to 10 percent, China's economy is transitioning to a 'new normal' of slower but more b...

The focus of the global economy has increasingly shifted toward China and emerging countries. However, despite their high growth prospects, emergin...

Reducere. The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggl...