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Money, Trade and Power
The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society
Av Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
648 kr
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Reflecting the burgeoning interest of colonial historians in South Carolina and its role as the economic and cultural center of the Lower South, Money, Trade, and Power is a comprehensive exploration of the colony's slave system, economy, and complex social and cultural life. The first six chapters …
Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2002
502 kr
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The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in …
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2007
601 kr
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Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth century to the twentieth and from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Scholars representing the fields of history, art …
To Make This Land Our Own
Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865
Inbunden, 2007
699 kr
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On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This …
Fighting for Honor
The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2008
1346 kr
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Desch Obi explores a cultural continuity originating in Africa and that is as old as early slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hip-hop culture in this thorough survey of the history of African martial arts techniques. He maps the translation of numerous physical combat …
Paths to Freedom
Manumission in the Atlantic World
Av Rosemary Brana-Shute, Randy J. Sparks
Inbunden, 2009
728 kr
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This book presents an international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery. Manumission - the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues - has received relatively little scholarly attention as compared to other aspects …
Memory and Identity
The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora
Av Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
360 kr
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This book offers a thoroughly international study of the Huguenot migration.Traditionally known as le Refuge, the Huguenot diaspora is one of the most important dispersions of a religious minority in early modern Europe. This migration led to the exodus of nearly two hundred thousand Protestants …
Creating and Contesting Carolina
Proprietary Era Histories
Av Michelle LeMaster, Bradford J. Wood
Inbunden, 2013
705 kr
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The essays in Creating and Contesting Carolina shed new light on how the various peoples of the Carolinas responded to the tumultuous changes shaping the geographic space that the British called Carolina during the Proprietary period (1663-1719). In doing so, the essays focus attention on some of …
Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World
A Social and Architectural History
Av Barry L. Stiefel, David Rittenberg
Inbunden, 2014
1041 kr
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Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a unique blend of cultural and architectural history that considers Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid-fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful …
Civil War As Global Conflict
Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War
Av David T. Gleeson, Simon Lewis
Inbunden, 2014
612 kr
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In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational …
Working on the Dock of the Bay
Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port
Inbunden, 2015
1345 kr
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Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers - black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant - in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid …
Torrid Zone
Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century
Av L.H. Roper
Inbunden, 2018
647 kr
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The first comparative treatment of settlers' trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the CaribbeanBrimming with new perspectives and cuttingedge research, the essays collected in The Torrid Zone explore colonization and cultural interaction in the Caribbean from the late 1600s to the early …
Crossings and Encounters
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Atlantic World
Av Laura R. Prieto, Stephen Berry
Inbunden, 2020
526 kr
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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 or find it transformed. Through this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry offer vivid new accounts of how individuals …
Atlantic Economy During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel
Häftad, 2020
400 kr
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The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin--comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas--during the seventeenth and eighteenth …
Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery
Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas
Inbunden, 2020
1332 kr
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Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked the Americas together. In Black Freedom in the …
Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery
Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas
Häftad, 2020
396 kr
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Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked the Americas together. In Black Freedom in the …
Fighting for Honor
The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World
Häftad, 2021
329 kr
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The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hip-hop …
Challenging History
Race, Equity, and the Practice of Public History
Av Leah Worthington, Rachel Clare Donaldson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
468 kr
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For decades racism and social inequity have stayed at the center of the national conversation in the United States, sustaining the debate around public historic places and monuments and what they represent. These conversations are a reminder of the crucial role that public history professionals …
Fugitive Movements
Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2022
526 kr
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In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion. Among the leaders was a free Black carpenter named Denmark Vesey. After a brief investigation and what many considered a dubious trial, Vesey and …
From New Babylon to Eden
The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina
Häftad, 2025
385 kr
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A revealing account of the choices French immigrants faced as they settled in South Carolina Winner of the National Huguenot Society's 2007 Book of the Year award, From New Babylon to Edentraces the persecution of Huguenots in France and the eventual immigration of a small bloc of the French …
Port Cities of the Atlantic World
Sea-Facing Histories of the US South
Av Jacob Steere-Williams, Blake C. Scott
Inbunden, 2023
595 kr
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Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic worldPort Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long trans-Altlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of …
Warm Ashes
Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Av Winfred B. Moore, Kyle Sinsi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
584 kr
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Selected from papers presented at the 2000 Citadel Conference on the South, this collection of essays casts additional light on the southern experience and illuminates some of the directions its formal study may take in the new century. Emory Thomas opens the collection with a meditation on the …
Who Shall Rule at Home? the Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776
Inbunden, 2007
584 kr
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A reinterpretation of the origins of the colonial revolutionary movement, ""Who Shall Rule at Home?"" charts the changing nature of South Carolina's political culture from the end of King George's War in 1748 to the decision for independence. Mercantini challenges the prevailing interpretation of …
Votaries of Apollo
The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820
Inbunden, 2007
584 kr
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This work is a comprehensive account of the musical culture of Charleston's golden age. Blending archival research with musical expertise, Butler offers a definitive history of the dynamic and vibrant concert life in Charleston from 1766 to 1820, when the exclusive St. Cecilia Society functioned as …
Material Culture in Anglo-America
Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean
Inbunden, 2009
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This book offers a heavily illustrated comparative study of artifacts and architecture from three historically linked regions. ""Material Culture in Anglo-America"" examines the extent to which regions project cultural identities through the material forms of objects, buildings, and constructed …
Fruits of Exile
Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in the Age of Fascism
Inbunden, 2009
642 kr
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This book offers fresh insights on an underexplored moment in intellectual history. ""The Fruits of Exile"" casts new light on the history of emigre thinkers escaping from the rise of fascism in Central Europe. Editors Richard Bodek and Simon Lewis, along with an international group of …
Irish in the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2010
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The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical, and ethnic paradigms. Edited by David T. Gleeson, this collection of essays offers a robust new vision of the …
Ambiguous Anniversary
The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans
Av David T. Gleeson, Simon Lewis
Inbunden, 2012
612 kr
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An examination of the1808 international slave trade ban and its impact on the American South and Atlantic WorldIn March 1807, within a few weeks of each other, both the United States and the United Kingdom passed laws banning the international slave trade. Two hundred years later, Great Britain, an …
Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2017
622 kr
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While the concept of an Atlantic world has been central to the work of historians for decades, the full implications of that spatial setting for the lives of religious people have received far less attention. In Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World, John Corrigan brings together research from …
