Making of New World Slavery, Paperback - Robin Blackburn

Reducere. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of p...

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their ...

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they a...

Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childr...

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. 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 ...

Reducere. From a description of Sartre's hitherto unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's declining years, this intimate portrait incorporates...

It was out of medieval Provence Proensa that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provencal troubadours that it found...

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...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

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

The New Avengers is often forgotten or patronisingly treated by fans of the original 1960s cult television show, The Avengers. This short study of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Milton MeltzerSlavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution, " but one that is deeply rooted in the history and...

Reducere. David Fairchild wrote this book to describe his extensive world travels and his work introducing new plant species to the United States. In additio...

Reducere. "The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - Detroit News " S]pine-chilling . ...

You have big dreams and yearn to live a purposeful life, but it's hard to stay inspired in today's polarized world. The headlines make you want to ...

Reducere. This book tells the story of Nathalie, a fashion model who has been celebrated for her striking physical beauty. She did shootings for many prestig...

Reducere. At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet be...

Reducere. Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivitie...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining templ...

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

Reducere. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa its...

Reducere. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe...

Reducere. Few works have shaped a national literature as thoroughly as the Poem of the Cid has shaped the Spanish literary tradition. Tracing the life of the...

Modern slavery is widespread, but systemic injustice in society means this crime is able to perpetuate, hidden in plain sight. This expose shares m...

Learn to make Luna Lapin's friends and their exquisite wardrobes. This collection of sewing patterns features five of Luna's best friends (as well ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatter...

Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

Reducere. Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slaver...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Why the new nomad and increased migration will help bring greater prosperity to the planet.Illustrations: None