Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World, Paperback - Londa Schiebinger

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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. Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

Reducere. In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-Americ...

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

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...

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 ...

An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberia...

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:...

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 ...

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...

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

This book explores the phenomenon of firsting in primary and secondary sources about the early modern Atlantic world, while proposing ways through ...

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...

The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

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. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

Reducere. One of the greatest hopes and expectations that accompanied American colonialism - from its earliest incarnation - was that Atlantic settlers would...

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 ...

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

Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challengi...