Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in the Netherlands, Hardcover - Markus Balkenhol

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while t...

DescriptionDid you know the Netherlands has more bicycles than residents? The city of Amsterdam has been called Тthe bicycle capital of the world У...

Reducere. A Holocaust memoir unlike any other: first-person accounts by nine family members, separated, disguised, and desperate to survive the Nazi occupati...

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in r...

Reducere. In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered...

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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 state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of m...

Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set a...

DescriptionNorth American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands showcases 114 oustanding examples of Native art and ...

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:...

In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the ""Gre...

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 ...

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

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

A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated di...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...

Contributor(s): Editor: Iain McCalmanRobert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publ...

Reducere. In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most im...

Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and p...

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...

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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 ...

The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories fo...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

How are forbidden histories told and transmitted among young people in Israel/Palestine? What can their stories teach us about their everyday exper...

DescriptionCould slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? I...

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

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

How American colonists went from thinking of the British past as their own to creating an "American history" that would play a crucial role in thei...

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

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance ...

Reducere. Examine what it means to be a global citizen, and learn about the rights and responsibilities that we all have. The right to grow and thrive in a s...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

Reducere. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...

Presents an account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. This book presents a study of American attempts to...

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...