Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History, Paperback - Wim Klooster

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...

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

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economi...

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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...

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...

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 ...

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:...

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

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. 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 ...

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. 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 this now classic text, December Green and Laura Luehrmann show how history, economics, and politics converge to create the realities of life in ...

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

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

Atlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chap...

Publisher: Gallic BooksNumber of pages: 1392Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 58Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Stephane Ger...

This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inher...

Description Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taki...

Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

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....

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The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionAstrology of the World II: Revolutions & History is the second in a trilogy of translations in traditional mundane astrology, from Latin...

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Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most i...