Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture – serie
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History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905
Häftad, 1981
425 kr
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Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well-informed, and perceptive contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century Guyanese society. This comprehensive examination encompasses the …
Caribbean Contours
Av Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sally Price
Häftad, 1985
413 kr
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In 'Caribbean Contours' eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to this complex and geographically fragmented region.
Problem of Freedom
Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
Häftad, 1991
487 kr
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"A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire."--C. Vann Woodward. "Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of …
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
Av William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
425 kr
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A distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examines the production, processing, and marketing of coffee. Using this important commodity as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, and political …
Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race
The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856
Av Pierre Dasalles, Elborg Forster m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
414 kr
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Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source …
Slave Rebellion in Brazil
The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia
Häftad, 1995
410 kr
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The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas and the only one in which Islam played a major role. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial …
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar
Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918
Häftad, 2004
494 kr
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In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, …
African Religions of Brazil
Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations
Häftad, 2007
398 kr
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Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American studies. First published in France in 1960, the book represents a singular effort to develop a theory of the interpenetrations of African, European, …
Cannibal Encounters
Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763
Häftad, 2009
443 kr
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Philip Boucher analyzes the images-and the realities-of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and …
New World Soundings
Culture and Ideology in the Americas
Häftad, 2020
570 kr
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Originally published in 1989. In New World Soundings, cultural historian Richard Morse takes a series of sharply focused looks at the Americas. He inquires into the ways in which speech and poetry evoke the common historical experience of North and South America and examines the transatlantic "sea …
Alabi's World
Häftad, 1990
383 kr
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In the early 18th century, the Dutch colony of Suriname was the envy of all others in the Americas. There, seven hundred Europeans lived off the labor of over four thousand enslaved Africans. Owned by men hell-bent for quick prosperity, the rich plantations on the Suriname river became known for …
