Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World, Hardcover - Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Reducere. In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpret...

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpret...

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

A gritty and moving portrayal of a young girl facing up to hardship and deprivation, written with warmth, humour and insight, Jessie Kesson's class...

A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern periodPublisher: Yale Unive...

Reducere. True poverty is not relegated only to a malnourished mind, body, or soul, but rather it is the famine of not knowing or hearing from God, and for t...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon F. SensbachRebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspir...

This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yor...

Examines the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. This work captures the mult...

The authoritative portrait of the bestselling metal classic, with unseen photographs from the recording sessions and toursFollowing its release in ...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdIllustration(s): mapsNumber of pages: 180Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 21Cover type: HardbackEditor...

Reducere. Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eightee...

Contributor(s): Author: Wim KloosterA new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world Within just a half century, the America...

Reducere. Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

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For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity. Through ...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Karel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) DavidsIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages:...

An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), En...

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

Reducere. The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe,...

Reducere. This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were ...

DescriptionIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives--and, by extension, of the Spani...

The Chicago-born artist Charles White (1918-79) was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of African-American men, women and children that ...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rana A. HogarthIn 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is somethi...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...

In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas....

The popular watercolour painter expands on her method of working, including four step-by-step projects as well as general advice suitable for begin...

Reducere. Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the Engl...

Reducere. From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on c...

Reducere. The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions,...

The best-loved children's stories become the background for some of the most famous board games. Pull out and fold the markers, find a friend to sp...

Christian Wolmar's biggest paperback yet. Blood, Iron and Gold tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways a...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas...

Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World - Andrew Wilson, Alan Bowman

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