Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing Through Slavery in Colonial Quito

DescriptionIn this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the ...

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. 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 ...

Reducere. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples, Paperback

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.The Origins of Ame...

DescriptionOriginally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been ...

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807....

Reducere. A rare glimpse of a young C. S. Lewis. Spirits in Bondage reveals the earliest published thoughts of C. S. Lewis. However, we find an unfamiliar Le...

Reducere. DescriptionShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indig...

Reducere. Whether you are looking for an introduction to bondage or seeking new heights of erotic delights, The Ultimate Guide to Bondage is the perfect addi...

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts...

Contributor(s): Author: Brenna BhandarIn Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of...

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

Reducere. DescriptionStanding Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884-1950), a Ho-Chunk, and...

Reducere. Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture exposes the ways in which colonialism is expressed in the literary and cultural production of...

How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tell...

A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood provides a...

Reducere. With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

Reducere. "Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and the heart of man is the light which can illumine all life, the future and the past."-Mabel Colli...

DescriptionThis revised and updated Bible translation in Hard Cover form is based on the original 1611 King James Version, which includes the Apocr...

Publisher: Beacon BooksAuthor(s): Munyaradzi Felix MuroveNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback ...

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 ...

Connolly draws on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang to open up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics...

Tells a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth...

Lesser-known tales of anticolonial defiance in artworks and marginal histories worldwideThe artists featured in this book create compelling narrati...

Jacob Gorender's (1922-2013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English-language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter a...

Stolen Lives is an authoritative and compassionate investigation into human trafficking and slavery in Britain today, placing this appalling crime ...

This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism - as both an economic project and a broader political approach - h...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen you think of early Texas history, you think of freedom fighters at the Alamo and rugged cowboys riding the plains. You usually don'...

Reducere. In the Best Interests of Baseball? is a thoughtful, balanced look at the impact of the ninth commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, on the sport as w...

Two Girls and a Beehive offers a minutely observed exploration in poetry of the life and work of Stanley Spencer and his two wives, Hilda Carline a...

Jean Watkins' second collection, celebrates the diversity of wildlife, landscape, art and human experience.