Slavery and Essentialism in Highland Madagascar. Ethnography, History, Cognition, Paperback - ***

This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolit...

Reducere. Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography, Paperback

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

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

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

Reducere. New Hampshire was once a hotbed of abolitionist activity. But the state had its struggles with slavery, with Portsmouth serving as a slave-trade hu...

A robust guide to practicing ethnographic research in the private sector.

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

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad fol...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Frauke MoerikeNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 225 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic e...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

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...

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts ...

Reducere. Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own per...

Reducere. DescriptionOut of Slavery: A Novel of Harriet Tubman is a story that follows the perilous path of the Underground Railroad and the tragic costs of ...

Reducere. DescriptionConcord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first mi...

Reducere. DescriptionScotland, 1032 Everything Gruoch loves has turned to ash. With Gillacoemgain gone, Gruoch rides north with her newborn son and a broken ...

Reducere. Destined to become Queen of Scotland. Bound by blood to the Celtic gods. Scotland, 1026--Gruoch, descendant of the line of MacAlpin, should have be...

Reducere. DescriptionThe king is dead.Long live the queen.With Duncan defeated, Gruoch becomes Queen of Scotland. Now she must rule at Macbeth's side, a diff...

Reducere. Scotland, 1032-When a marriage contract calls Gruoch away from Ynes Verleath, she leaves with the hope she'll be reunited with Banquo. But fate has...

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions...

Reducere. Music of the Great Highland BagpipeBy: Michael E. AkardThe music of the Scottish Highland bagpipe has gone through many changes over the years. Cla...

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keri Leigh MerrittAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess worker...

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 ...

Reducere. "My Christian faith taught me always to fight hard but only to fight back with the truth. Sadly, I learned that the opposition to Judeo-Christian f...

Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and for...

Contributor(s): Author: Eric RichardsIn the first documented study of one of Scotland's most emotive subjects for many years, this book traces the ...

Reducere. Madagascar provided the stunning backdrop for one of the strangest conflicts of the Second World War - when Britain went head to head against one o...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as ``freedom's swift-winged angels.`` In 1813 th...

Reducere. "Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas."--San Francis...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill CareyTennessee had a smaller percentage of slaves than most other Southern states and was the last state to join the C...

Reducere. It has often been claimed that monsters--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought ...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Thomas GreenshieldsNumber of pages: 536Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 170 x 244 x 26Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive. History auth...

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on pr...

In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island. Historians have written expans...

DescriptionNew York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell breathes life into the enchanting beauty of the Scottish Highlands in this epic romance ...