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87 produkter
Empire at the Periphery
British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713
Inbunden, 2011
534 kr
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Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping, where orderliness reflected the effectiveness of the regulatory apparatus constructed to contain Atlantic commerce. Colonial ports were …
Insatiable Appetites
Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2015
1265 kr
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A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modern periodCannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery. Humans who ate other humans, they believed, were little better than animals. The European colonizers …
Colonization and Its Discontents
Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America's abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the …
Caribbean Crossing
African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement
Av Sara Fanning
Inbunden, 2015
561 kr
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Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti's leaders realizedthat if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bondswith other nations. Haiti's first leaders looked especially hard at the UnitedStates, which had a sizeable free black population that included …
Colonization and Its Discontents
Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Inbunden, 2011
929 kr
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Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America's abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the …
Slavery Before Race
Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884
Inbunden, 2013
826 kr
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The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of …
Year of the Lash
Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2011
1215 kr
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Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”—a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad in Havana …
On Slavery's Border
Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
Inbunden, 2010
1299 kr
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On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri’s strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By the time of statehood …
On Slavery's Border
Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
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On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri’s strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By the time of statehood …
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
Inbunden, 2012
1339 kr
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Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism’s two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the …
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean
Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit
Häftad, 2012
543 kr
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Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism’s two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the …
Sounds American
National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860
Inbunden, 2011
1299 kr
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Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture …
Sounds American
National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture …
Year of the Lash
Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Häftad, 2011
443 kr
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Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”—a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad in Havana …
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2012
1299 kr
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When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. …
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks. …
Empire of Small Places
Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795
Inbunden, 2012
1299 kr
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Britain’s colonial empire in southeastern North America relied on the cultivation and maintenance of economic and political ties with the numerous powerful Indian confederacies of the region. Those ties in turn relied on British traders adapting to Indian ideas of landscape and power. In An Empire …
Empire of Small Places
Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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Britain’s colonial empire in southeastern North America relied on the cultivation and maintenance of economic and political ties with the numerous powerful Indian confederacies of the region. Those ties in turn relied on British traders adapting to Indian ideas of landscape and power. In An Empire …
Privateers of the Americas
Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic
Inbunden, 2015
1131 kr
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Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, …
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference
Av Jenny Shaw
Inbunden, 2013
1299 kr
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Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial …
In the Shadow of Dred Scott
St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America
Inbunden, 2017
949 kr
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The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like …
In the Shadow of Dred Scott
St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America
Häftad, 2019
467 kr
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The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like …
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference
Av Jenny Shaw
Häftad, 2013
608 kr
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Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial …
Natchez Country
Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Inbunden, 2015
1424 kr
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At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions in Natchez Country had taken a turn …
Natchez Country
Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Häftad, 2015
590 kr
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At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions in Natchez Country had taken a turn …
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838
Inbunden, 2015
1232 kr
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This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island’s slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at …
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838
Häftad, 2015
309 kr
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This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island’s slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at …
Privateers of the Americas
Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic
Häftad, 2015
390 kr
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Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, …
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era
Inbunden, 2016
1143 kr
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Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with “niceness”—a set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long-term economic and social progress and a close, nurturing family life. Goloboy’s case study of merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, looks to an …
Anglo-Native Virginia
Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722
Inbunden, 2016
949 kr
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The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virginia. Virginians were unique in their interaction with Native peoples in part because of their tributary system, a practice that became codified with …
