wyszukanych pozycji: 18
Chattel House Blues: Making of a Democratic Society in Barbados - From Clement Payne to Owen Arthur
ISBN: 9789766370862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The remaking of colonial Barbados as a postmodern nation state has its political roots buried deep within the past. In Chattel House Blues, Hilary Beckles sets out to rewrite modern Barbadian history by centring the evolution of the nation in centuries of grassroots struggle. Democracy in Barbados, he argues, as a social, political and cultural reality, has its origins principally within working class demands for freedom, justice and equality and not as a bestowal upon the masses by elites at moments of imperial and colonial enlightenment. In the second volume of his trilogy, Great House...
The remaking of colonial Barbados as a postmodern nation state has its political roots buried deep within the past. In Chattel House Blues, Hilary Bec...
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133,00 zł |
Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Women in Barbados
ISBN: 9780813515113 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. social history of slavery.
social history of slavery.
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176,69 zł |
Caribbean Freedom: Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present
ISBN: 9789768100177 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This reader of nearly 60 articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present - from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic. The range of coverage is comprehensive calling attention to the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean. Three broad themes are identified: -the slow disintegration of the slave system which was not completed until 1886; -the attempts by resistant social groups and imperial agencies to accept and adjust to freedom; and -the...
This reader of nearly 60 articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present - from Toussaint's Haiti ...
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231,53 zł |
Saving Souls: The Struggle to End the Transatlantic Trade in Africans
ISBN: 9789766373078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had long resisted its operation, abolition has traditionally been presented as a benevolent act by the British state acting under pressure from the intellectual classes and humanitarian activists. But the campaign to end the TTA cannot be separated from the resistance struggle of the Africans themselves.In Saving Souls: The Struggle to end the Transatlantic Trade in Africans, the companion volume to Trading Souls, noted Caribbean historians Hilary...
The process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had lo...
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92,44 zł |
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World: A Student Reader
ISBN: 9789768123619 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 1120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a completely revised and expanded version of Caribbean Slave Society and Economy which has become a standard text in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. This new volume is made up of 17 sections comprising more than 70 articles which makes it the most comprehensive text of its kind available anywhere. Each of the 17 sections has a short introduction which provide the context for the general theme and for the essays which follow. The ambitiously wide range of coverage reflects the main themes of the most recent research and publication. The essays cover the...
This is a completely revised and expanded version of Caribbean Slave Society and Economy which has become a standard text in colleges and universities...
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434,66 zł |
Trading Souls: Europe's Transatlantic Trade in Africans
ISBN: 9789766373061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) has no equal in the annals of modern history in terms of the scope and depth of suffering experienced by its victims, mostly at the hands of European traders and enslavers. Yet, denial and silence continue to surround this human tragedy. Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd, two of the Caribbean's most distinguished historians, make extensive use of the research by scholars from Europe, Africa and the Americas to describe the trade and analyse its impact on African, European and Caribbean societies in language and style that makes the information...
"The Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) has no equal in the annals of modern history in terms of the scope and depth of suffering experienced by it...
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75,05 zł |
How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty
ISBN: 9789766408695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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247,08 zł |
Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems
ISBN: 9780521435444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians.
An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians.
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72,77 zł |
The First West Indies Cricket Tour: Canada and the United States in 1866
ISBN: 9789768125866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The West Indies Cricket Team, formed in 1884, made its first overseas tour two years later to Canada and the United States. The tourists played thirteen matches during August and September; they won six, lost five and two were drawn. The first match was played against the Montreal Cricket Club, 16-17 August 1886. It ended in a draw after which the West Indians moved on to Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton.They arrived in the United States to play several matches in Philadelphia where the cricket culture was well established. Local clubs proved too strong an opposition for the tourists. The press...
The West Indies Cricket Team, formed in 1884, made its first overseas tour two years later to Canada and the United States. The tourists played thirte...
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192,17 zł |
A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market
ISBN: 9780521678490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this second edition, Hilary Beckles updates the text to reflect the considerable number of writings recently published on Barbados.
In this second edition, Hilary Beckles updates the text to reflect the considerable number of writings recently published on Barbados.
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122,00 zł |
The First Black Slave Society: Britain's Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636-1876
ISBN: 9789766405854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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192,17 zł |
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
ISBN: 9789766402686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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152,51 zł |
Inside Slavery Process & Legacy
ISBN: 9789768125194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honor memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include Thistlewood's Journals (Douglas Hall), slave conditions in Barbados and other islands (Richard Sheridan), slavery and freedom in Brazil and Louisian
Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honor memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include...
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148,24 zł |
The Development of West Indies Cricket: Vol. 1 the Age of Nationalism
ISBN: 9789766400644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this first volume Professor Hilary Beckles examines the short-lived "first rising" of West Indian cricket supremacy, arguing that it sent a clear message to the world that the newly independent nations of the West Indies were able to lead world cricket
In this first volume Professor Hilary Beckles examines the short-lived "first rising" of West Indian cricket supremacy, arguing that it sent a clear m...
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219,62 zł |
Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities and Nationhood
ISBN: 9780521435451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians.
An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians.
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91,32 zł |
Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture
ISBN: 9789766405021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belongings. Still, there have been varied responses to RihannaAEs ascendancy, both in the Barbadian public and Caribbean community at large u responses that reveal as much about our own national/regional anxieties as they do about the artist herself. The cutting edge, boundary-transgressing, cultural icon Rihanna is certainly subject to moralistic scrutiny from her global audiences as well; however, the essays in this...
Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating he...
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139,44 zł |
The Development of West Indies Cricket: Vol 2: The Age of Globalization
ISBN: 9789766400651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this second volume, Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is a debilitating sub-nationalism in the West Indies, and the effect this has had on the game.
In this second volume, Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the eme...
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219,62 zł |
A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844
ISBN: 9789766401788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generations of scholars. Through extensive archival work with estate records, legal records, family papers and private correspondence, she sought out the women of Jamaica's past during slavery, women of all classes, all colours black, brown and white. The work stands as a convincing exposure of women as agents of history - a path-breaking achievement at a time when Caribbean historiography ignored women. From her meticulous research emerged a powerful...
In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generations ...
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301,98 zł |