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Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henri Grégoire
Publisher : Corinthian Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book De la litterature des Nègres written by Henri Grégoire and published by Corinthian Press. This book was released on 1808 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Bernasconi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197587968
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Critical Philosophy of Race written by Robert Bernasconi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays by distinguished philosopher of race Robert Bernasconi that are collected here demonstrate why the critical philosophy of race needs to take a historical turn. Genealogies of the concepts of both race and racism clarify why some of the dominant strategies for combattingracism tend to be ineffective. For example, the Boasian/UNESCO strategy that highlights biology's rejection of race neglects cultural racism. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, the late Sartre, and Michel Foucault, Robert Bernasconi argues for a holistic approach that integrates the concreteexperience of racism faced by individuals into the study of institutional, structural, and systemic racism. His philosophical studies of such Black philosophers as Ottobah Cugoano, Antenor Firmin, and W. E. B. Du Bois, contribute to challenging the dominant philosophical canon. This volume will bean essential resource for scholars and students interested in this resurgent topic.
Author : Edward Derbyshire Seeber
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Anti-slavery Opinion in France During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century written by Edward Derbyshire Seeber and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Oudin-Bastide
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190856866
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Calculation and Morality written by Caroline Oudin-Bastide and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators in slave-holding societies, all of whom used calculations about the relative cost and productivity of slavery to defend their own point of view in an impassioned debate. In Calculation and Morality, Caroline Oudin-Bastide and Philippe Steiner consider how economic calculations, estimations, and arguments informed the long debate over French slavery between 1771 and 1848. They show how calculation was introduced into moral debate and became a critical social object in regard both to its consistency and its manifest effects. To do so they trace a process in which phenomena were classified into groups, becoming a category, and then how metrics and calculations were used to analyze the possible effects of emancipating slaves in French colonies. Abolitionists sought to demonstrate that it was in the interest of slaveowners and/or the entire nation to employ free labour in the colonies, and to show the irrationality of the colonial and metropolitan defenders of servitude; their aim was to enlighten various parties as to their real interest, and how that real interest coincided with justice. In turn, colonists accused those opposed to slavery of being blinded by their own philanthropic principles and insisted on the rationality of the slave system as the only means of meeting the interests of everyone, including slaves, at least in the short and medium term. Oudin-Bastide and Steiner closely examine the positions and reasoning of such influential French thinkers as Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet, Simonde de Sismondi, Jean Baptiste Say, and Alexis de Tocqueville. In doing so they shed light on the interaction of moral precepts and econonomic calculations in a trenchant study in the history of ideas.
Author : Sean M. Quinlan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317029887
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Great Nation in Decline written by Sean M. Quinlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation; a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. Moreover, it is shown how doctors imparted biomedical ideas and language that allowed lay people to make sense of often bewildering socio-political changes, thereby giving them a sense of agency and control over these events. Combining a chronological and thematic approach, the six chapters in this book trace how doctors began their medical crusade during the middle of the Enlightenment, how this activism flowered during the French Revolution, and how they then revised their views during the period of post-revolutionary reaction. The study concludes by arguing that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.
Author : Ryan Hanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475655
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Beyond Slavery and Abolition written by Ryan Hanley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how black writers helped to build modern Britain by looking beyond the questions of slavery and abolition.
Author : Adrianna M. Paliyenko
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271079177
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Genius Envy written by Adrianna M. Paliyenko and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.” Despite the efforts of leading thinkers, critics, and literary historians to erase women from the pages of literary history, Paliyenko shows how these female poets invigorated the debate about the origins of genius and garnered considerable recognition in their time for their creativity and bold aesthetic ideas. This fresh account of French women poets’ contributions to literature probes the history of their critical reception. The result is an encounter with the texts of celebrated writers such as Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louisa Siefert, and Louise Ackermann. Glimpses at the different stages of each poet’s career show that these women explicitly challenged the notion of genius as gender specific, thus advocating for their rightful place in the canon. A prodigious contribution to studies of nineteenth-century French poetry, Paliyenko’s book reexamines the reception of poetry by women within and beyond its original context. This balanced and comprehensive treatment of their work uncovers the multiple ways in which women poets sought to define their place in history.
Author : Francesca Trivellato
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691185379
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Promise and Peril of Credit written by Francesca Trivellato and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
Author : Sandrine Bergès
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350227145
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Liberty in Their Names written by Sandrine Bergès and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the story of three overlooked revolutionary thinkers, Liberty in Their Names explores the lives and works of Olympe de Gouges, Sophie de Grouchy and Manon Roland. All three were thinking and writing about political philosophy, especially equality and social justice, before the French Revolution. As they became engaged in its efforts, their political writing became more urgent. At a time when women could neither vote nor speak at the Assembly, they became influential through their writings. Yet instead of Gouges, Grouchy and Roland, we speak of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot. Sandrine Bergès examines the lives and writings of these trailblazing women philosophers, and their impact on philosophical thought during the French Revolution. Featuring pictures, a timeline and a bibliography of their works, this book offers exciting new insights into the history of political philosophy and of the French Revolution.
Author : Simona Pisanelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040109071
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Slavery and Colonialism in the History of Economic Thought written by Simona Pisanelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantic slavery represents one of the blackest pages of human history. European powers not only colonised American lands but also brought African men and women to work as slaves on plantations. Intellectuals did not remain indifferent to this practice and – from the second half of the 18th century – criticised the institution of slavery from an ethical, legal, and economic point of view. This book aims to briefly illustrate the colonisation process implemented by France and Great Britain in the Caribbean and to reconstruct the debate on colonialism and slavery that developed in these two countries, approaching the issue from the standpoint of the History of Economic Thought. The decisive phase in this debate took place in the second half of the 18th century, when some classical economists belonging to the cultural movement of the Enlightenment laid the foundations for the critique of a production system based on slavery. On the same basis, some economists of the first half of the 19th century continued to express their critical attitude towards slavery and colonialism. The ideas of the Enlightenment, although of European origin, are also useful in analysing the different levels of development that the former American colonies achieved following independence, choosing to invest in either industry or agriculture. This book provides the reader with the critical tools to understand that opting for slavery was not only an unforgivable sin in human history but also an economically irrational choice.
Author : Andrew S. Curran
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401509
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Blackness written by Andrew S. Curran and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and literary texts, Curran shows how naturalists and philosophes drew from travel literature to discuss the perceived problem of human blackness within the nascent human sciences. He also describes how a number of now-forgotten anatomists revolutionized the era’s understanding of black Africans and charts the shift of the slavery debate from the moral, mercantile, and theological realms toward that of the “black body” itself. In tracing this evolution, he shows how blackness changed from a mere descriptor in earlier periods into a thing to be measured, dissected, handled, and often brutalized. "A definitive statement on the complex, painful, and richly revealing topic of how the major figures of the French Enlightenment reacted to the enslavement of black Africans, often to their discredit. The fields of race studies and of Enlightenment studies are more than ready to embrace the type of analysis in which Curran engages, and all the more so in that his book is beautifully written and illustrated."—Symposium "This is an important contribution to an important topic. But it is also a model of how intellectual history should be done."—New Books in History "The breadth of Andrew Curran's knowledge about the Enlightenment is astonishing . . . The book makes the convincing point not only that Africa is a major focus in the Enlightenment's imagination, but also that natural history and anthropology are central to understanding not only its scientific agenda, but also its humanitarian politics."—Centaurus "Curran's Francotropism and medical background enable him to develop insights that should prove important to the ongoing transnationalization and discipline-blurring of literary and cultural studies."—Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment "Curran's ability to dissect and explain complicated arguments of the period's major thinkers is impressive."—Choice
Author : Peter Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317792343
Total Pages : 903 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression written by Peter Hogg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography dealing specifically with African slave trade. This volume has been sub-classified for easier consultation and the compiler has provided, where possible, descriptions and comments on the works listed.
Author : Edward Derbyshire Seeber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages written by Edward Derbyshire Seeber and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ottobah Cugoano
Publisher : Zones
ISBN 13 : 2355220220
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Réflexions sur la traite et l'esclavage des nègres written by Ottobah Cugoano and published by Zones. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publié en Angleterre en 1787, l'ouvrage de ce Rousseau noir est considéré outre-Atlantique comme un classique des " récits d'esclaves ". Méconnue en France, cette pièce essentielle de l'histoire de la conscience noire est enfin rendue disponible, rééditée ici pour la première fois depuis deux siècles. À la fois récit et essai philosophique, ces Réflexions furent le premier texte abolitionniste à être écrit au XVIIIe siècle de la main d'un ancien esclave africain. Publié en Angleterre en 1787, l'ouvrage de ce Rousseau noir est considéré outre-Atlantique comme un classique des " récits d'esclaves ". Méconnue en France, cette pièce essentielle de l'histoire de la conscience noire est enfin rendue disponible, rééditée ici pour la première fois depuis plus de deux cents ans dans une belle traduction originale du XVIIIe siècle. Cugoano raconte comment, jeune garçon, il fut enlevé sur les côtes de l'Afrique et déporté dans la colonie britannique de la Grenade. Il témoigne directement de la violence des razzias, des conditions terribles de la traversée, des traitements inhumains à bord des bateaux négriers et de l'enfer de l'exploitation sur les plantations. Au-delà du récit, Cugoano rédige un véritable acte d'accusation contre les nations esclavagistes : faute de s'insurger contre la traite et l'esclavage, tous les Européens sont complices de l'oppression des Africains déportés. Il signe ainsi au nom de l'Afrique exploitée un réquisitoire sans appel contre les cruautés de l'Europe coloniale, dont les accents de colère résonnent encore aujourd'hui d'un écho particulier. Autodidacte et lecteur scrupuleux de la Bible, Cugoano se propose en outre de réfuter les justifications de l'esclavage. En philosophe et exégète du texte sacré, l'ancien esclave démonte systématiquement chacun des arguments allégués pour justifier la domination de ses frères. Au-delà de l'indignation morale et de la condamnation politique, il entend triompher de l'oppression par la critique intellectuelle : retournant la langue du maître contre elle-même, réfutant la pratique des Européens par les principes mêmes dont ils se réclament.
Author : Madeleine Dobie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801476099
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Trading Places written by Madeleine Dobie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two familiar aspects of Enlightenment thought: Orientalism and fascination with Amerindian cultures.
Author : Rhodner J Orisma
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984551000
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book From Revolution to Chaos in Haiti (1804-2019) written by Rhodner J Orisma and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiti is a failing state. The country is still unable to provide basic needs such as employment, food, housing, healthcare and education to a majority of its inhabitants in over two centuries after its revolution and Independence of 1804. Relatively incompetent, both the nation’s government and its opposition ignore moral politics, and instead, focus on corruption and fighting each other. Though free from French rule, the country remains tied to its slave past and violent history. It seems like a socioeconomic and urban consensus cannot be achieved in order to carry out sustainable solutions for the people. This book, From Revolution to Chaos in Haiti, 1804-2019: Urban Problems and Redevelopment Straregies, is an attempt to analyze this situation from a historical perspective. First, the Haitian Revolution of 1804 is displayed to show the violent and bloody struggles of outstanding leaders and warriors against colonial powers for the making of a great political and independent nation. Second, Haiti’s decline is analyzed starting from the assassination of its first leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in 1806 to the country’s bottom rank in the global stratification during the 2010’s along with the impact of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake. The main factors noted within this decline are linguistic, agricultural, urban and (HIV, AIDS, TB) healthcare issues and undercapitalization along with ideological confusions (capitalism, neoliberalism, socialism, social democracy) and political instability.
