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Freedom
Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture
Häftad, 1992
367 kr
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This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom in the West from antiquity through the Middle Ages.
Confounding Island
Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament
Häftad, 2023
201 kr
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceWinner of a PROSE Award“Fascinating…Eye-opening…Illuminating…Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery behind Jamaica’s dazzling successes and dismal failures.”—Carrie Gibson, New York Times Book Review“In the ruins of …
Cultural Matrix
Understanding Black Youth
Häftad, 2016
314 kr
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The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 …
Slavery and Social Death
A Comparative Study, With a New Preface
Häftad, 2018
283 kr
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Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science AssociationIn a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, …
Sociology of Slavery
Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838
Inbunden, 2022
748 kr
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Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life. What distinguishes Patterson's account is his …
Sociology of Slavery
Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838
Häftad, 2022
273 kr
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Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life. What distinguishes Patterson's account is his …
Sociology of Slavery
Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838
E-bok, 2022
310 kr
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Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life. What distinguishes Patterson''s account is his …
Paradox of Freedom
A Biographical Dialogue
Av David Scott, Orlando Patterson
Inbunden, 2023
703 kr
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The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with …
Paradox of Freedom
A Biographical Dialogue
Av David Scott, Orlando Patterson
Häftad, 2023
273 kr
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The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with …
Paradox of Freedom
A Biographical Dialogue
Av Orlando Patterson, David Scott
E-bok, 2023
310 kr
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The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with …
Enslavement
Past and Present
Inbunden, 2024
770 kr
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Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given its historical significance, it is not …
Enslavement
Past and Present
Häftad, 2024
281 kr
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Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given its historical significance, it is not …
Enslavement
Past and Present
E-bok, 2024
310 kr
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Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given its historical significance, it is not …
Enslavement
Past and Present
E-bok, 2024
897 kr
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Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given its historical significance, it is not …
Rituals Of Blood
The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries
Häftad, 1999
336 kr
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In the first essay, Patterson analyzes the very latest survey data to delineate the different attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women, dissecting both the external and internal causes for the great disparities he finds.In the second essay, Patterson focuses on the …
Children of Sisyphus
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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Dinah is a prostitute who lives with a Rastafarian fisherman on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorist squat. She refuses to accept his passivity and patriarchal attitudes and leaves him. But she is no more satisfied by the secure life she takes up with Alphanso, a dull police …
Die the Long Day
Häftad, 2026
215 kr
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Written by the New York Times, on publication of Die the Long Day: Institutions, in West Indian society, were created by slavery and colonialism, for a small elite. When a new Elite, however, began to emerge, the peasant majority began to understand their former white rulers through the black …
Ordeal Of Integration
Progress And Resentment In America's "Racial" Crisis
Häftad, 1998
185 kr
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For many years Orlando Patterson has been a major contributor to the public discussion of race in America. In this eagerly anticipated new volume, the author of the National Book Award-winner Freedom in the Making of Western Culture presents a comprehensive exploration of contemporary interethnic …
Absence of Ruins
Häftad, 2012
126 kr
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Originally published in 1967, "An Absence of Ruins" is a poignant portrayal of a man shaped by the colonial education of the Caribbean intellectual class. Orlando Patterson offers a devastating critique of middle-class intellectualism through the self-condemning perceptions of the main character, …
