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Total Pages : 832 pages
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Download or read book The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christer Petley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317313933
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Slaveholders in Jamaica written by Christer Petley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they were unable to avert the ending of British slavery.
Author : Tim Lockley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495621
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Military Medicine and the Making of Race written by Tim Lockley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.
Author : David W. Cohen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441187
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Neither Slave nor Free written by David W. Cohen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ten essays deal with colonial Spanish America, Surinam and Curacao, colonial Brazil, the French Antilles, Saint Domingue, Jamaica, Barbados, the North American slave states, Cuba, and nineteenth-century Brazil . . . . One also gets a strong sense from these papers of the rich variation within each society . . . . An important book."—Journal of Southern History "A distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of comparative history. It succeeds because it is written by qualified scholars who address a delimited, manageable subject . . . . The task was to canvass current knowledge and pinpoint areas of needed research regarding two topics: first, the experience of the free colored as a measure of the character of slavery and race relations; second, the fundamental roles of this group in the evolution of the respective societies."—American Historical Review
Author : Jessica Munns
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136722
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Clothes that Wear Us written by Jessica Munns and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the collection, there is an emphasis on the ways in which clothing could function to appropriate, explore, subvert, and assert alternative identities and possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Douglas Hamilton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847796338
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750–1820 written by Douglas Hamilton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, ‘across th’ Atlantic roar’. It outlines the range of their occupations as planters, merchants, slave owners, doctors, overseers, and politicians, and shows how Caribbean connections affected Scottish society during the period of ‘improvement’. The book highlights the Scots’ reinvention of the system of clanship to structure their social relations in the empire and finds that involvement in the Caribbean also bound Scots and English together in a shared Atlantic imperial enterprise and played a key role in the emergence of the British nation and the Atlantic World.
Author : W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425256X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Black Jacks written by W. Jeffrey Bolster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together—even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart—but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring, Black Jacks is African Americans’ freedom story presented from a fresh perspective.
Author : Aviva Ben-Ur
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297040
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society written by Aviva Ben-Ur and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, could enter any trade, owned plantations and slaves, and even had a say in colonial governance. Aviva Ben-Ur sets the story of Suriname's Jews in the larger context of Atlantic slavery and colonialism and argues that, like other frontier settlements, they achieved and maintained their autonomy through continual negotiation with the colonial government. Drawing on sources in Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish, Ben-Ur shows how, from their first permanent settlement in the 1660s to the abolition of their communal autonomy in 1825, Suriname Jews enjoyed virtually the same standing as the ruling white Protestants, with whom they interacted regularly. She also examines the nature of Jewish interactions with enslaved and free people of African descent in the colony. Jews admitted both groups into their community, and Ben-Ur illuminates the ways in which these converts and their descendants experienced Jewishness and autonomy. Lastly, she compares the Jewish settlement with other frontier communities in Suriname, most notably those of Indians and Maroons, to measure the success of their negotiations with the government for communal autonomy. The Jewish experience in Suriname was marked by unparalleled autonomy that nevertheless developed in one of the largest slave colonies in the New World.
Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135190267
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Slaves' Economy written by Ira Berlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.
Author : Benjamin Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Substance of a Course of Lectures on British Colonial Slavery written by Benjamin Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sherry B. Shapiro
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736069434
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Dance in a World of Change written by Sherry B. Shapiro and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributors from many fields and diverse cultural backgrounds, this book expands on the discourse and curriculum of dance in ways that connect it to the critical, political, moral and aesthetic dimensions of society, for example, examining choreography and issues of the self.
Author : Institute of Jamaica. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Jamaicensis written by Institute of Jamaica. Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Wilfred Mintz
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807009202
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Birth of African-American Culture written by Sidney Wilfred Mintz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
Author : Gunnar Myrdal
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141281510X
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Black and African-American Studies written by Gunnar Myrdal and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 976637290X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Music, Memory, Resistance written by Sandra Pouchet Paquet and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Calypsonians have long been the 'voice of the people', delivering the complaints, criticisms and even the solutions to political leaders. In its earliest manifestations, calypso music emerged in response to a cultural climate that demanded creative modes of expression that could both resist and record political and historical changes taking place in Trinidad and Tobago. Since the 1920s and 1930s, calypsonians typically have composed songs that chronicle their observations and opinions on current events focusing on specific occurrences, from local scandals to current affairs while also examining broader trends. Not only has calypso served as an unofficial record of historical events, it emerged as a cultural weapon that yielded tremendous sway within the general audiences of the Caribbean region. This collection includes contributions from calypsonians, critics, novelists and poets alike, all engaged in representing Caribbean culture in its myriad forms. It represents an array of convergences across critical perspectives, political and social agendas, generations and national boundaries. The work of numerous calypsonians and other singers are explored, including Sparrow; Kitchener; Chalkdust; Denise Belfon; and writers such as Samuel Selvon, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Errol John, Paul Marshall, Earl Lovelace and Lashkmi Persaud. The comparative analyses provide an interdisciplinary approach to Cultural Studies making the volume essential reading for students, scholars and calypso enthusiasts. "
Author : M.K. Bacchus
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889208891
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Utilization, Misuse, and Development of Human Resources in the Early West Indian Colonies written by M.K. Bacchus and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of the development of education in the West Indies between 1492 and 1854 examines the shifts which occurred within the nature of the education programs provided for the masses. Believing existing theories of educational change are too limiting, Bacchus has blended detailed analysis of such important factors as the changing role of the state, the conflicting educational objectives among the “dominant” groups, and their differences with the missionary societies providing popular education to better understand how these changes came about. He attributes greater importance to the role of the masses, who increasingly asserted their views about the type of education they wanted for their children. The book demonstrates how instructional programs developed in the West Indies not as the result of a rational curriculum development process but, rather, through a series of compromises made to accommodate the views of various influential groups. Education and curriculum evolved by way of a show, yet constant, changing dialectical process. Such an insightful work will arouse the interest of scholars and students of educational development, particularly those studying the West Indies.
Author : Sandra Courtman
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766371822
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana written by Sandra Courtman and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana emphasises the significance of the Caribbean in an increasingly globalised social world and draws attention to the contribution that scholarship in Caribbean Studies makes in coming to terms with a multi-cultural heritage. The compilation deliberately ranges in focus across periods, geographies, linguistic divisions and subject matter to present the fruition of significant research projects by 25 researchers from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contributors on the Hispanic, Dutch, African, Indian and Anglophone Caribbean juxtaposed with work on the Caribbean diasporas of the USA, UK, Canada and the Netherlands enrich the text with multiple perspectives.
