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Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire
Av Josep M. Fradera, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Inbunden, 2013
1979 kr
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African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. …
Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
Av Paolo Bernardini, Norman Fiering
Inbunden, 2001
2621 kr
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Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources …
Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Av Edward G. Gray, Norman Fiering
Häftad, 2001
526 kr
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When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of …
Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Av Edward G. Gray, Norman Fiering
Inbunden, 2000
1916 kr
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When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of …
Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
Av Paolo Bernardini, Norman Fiering
Häftad, 2004
675 kr
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Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources …
Sounds of Silence
Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Inbunden, 2006
1979 kr
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Portugal was the pioneer of the transatlantic slave trade, the ruler of both Brazil and Angola — the all time champions of that trade —, and one of the last western countries to decree the abolition of slaving institutions. Paradoxically, and in spite of the overwhelming number of works devoted to …
Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America
The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley
Av Paul Otto
Inbunden, 2006
1921 kr
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Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. It explores the interaction between the Dutch and the Munsee Indians and considers how they, and individuals within each group, interacted, focusing …
Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire
Av Josep M. Fradera, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Häftad, 2015
543 kr
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African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. …
Between Blood and Gold
The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas
Inbunden, 2016
1936 kr
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Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth …
Who Abolished Slavery?
Slave Revolts and AbolitionismA Debate with João Pedro Marques
Av Seymour Drescher, Pieter C. Emmer m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
532 kr
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The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents remain open for discussion. Recently, …
Possessing the World
Taking the Measurements of Colonisation from the 18th to the 20th Century
Av Bouda Etemad
Inbunden, 2007
1979 kr
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Based on an impressive body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. From the beginning of European expansion the question was posed: what were the "empire tools" that gave Europe its military …
Pious Pursuits
German Moravians in the Atlantic World
Av Michele Gillespie, Robert Beachy
Inbunden, 2007
1916 kr
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Recent work on the history of migration and the Atlantic World has underscored the importance of the political economies of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the eighteenth century, emphasizing the impact of these exchanges on political relations and state-building, and on economic structures, …
Who Abolished Slavery?
Slave Revolts and AbolitionismA Debate with João Pedro Marques
Av Seymour Drescher, Pieter C. Emmer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1916 kr
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The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents remain open for discussion. Recently, …
