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Amistad
ISBN: 9781558765924 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board are well documented in books and in a blockbuster film. Michael Zeuske adds a new dimension to this history: the story of the people behind the Amistad. Based on his discovery-in previously unknown collections in Cuba and Spain-of the captain's logbook, the cook's notes, and the merchants' ledgers and correspondence, he paints an eye-opening portrait of the slave trade between Africa and the Spanish Caribbean. After the British Empire abolished the slave trade in 1808 and enforced the ban with warships, slave traders in...
The 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board are well documented in books and in a blockbuster film. Michael Zeuske adds a new ...
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383,34 |
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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
ISBN: 9780226286105 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men--men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because--to speak bluntly--it worked. These...
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond...
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418,32 |
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Dominican Republic: Beyond the Lighthouse
ISBN: 9780906156643 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The Dominican Republic is the land Columbus loved best- runs the advertising slogan. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the explorer's arrival on the island of Hispaniola, the government spent a reported US$40 millions on building a bizarre commemorative lighthouse. In the process, it has bull-dozed the homes of thousands of slumdwellers to clear the memorial site. Dominican Republic: Beyond the Lighthouse looks at a country where extreme poverty exists alongside a booming tourist industry. Where workers from neighboring Haiti are literally enslaved in an almost bankrupt sugar...
-The Dominican Republic is the land Columbus loved best- runs the advertising slogan. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the explorer's arriva...
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116,98 |
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Green Gold: Bananas and Dependency in the Eastern Caribbean
ISBN: 9780906156261 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on conditions for the small farmers and includes a study of Geest PLC, the company solely responsible for distributing Windward bananas in Britain.
Looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on...
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101,36 |
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Embracing Cuba
ISBN: 9780813061153 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A stunning visual and heart-felt narrative of Cuba in all its major dimensions."--Insights Magazine "Words alone do not do Cuba justice. They depict only fragments of her mystery and beauty, her strength and fragility, her spirit and song. And so I turn to my cameras . . ."--from the introduction, Embracing Cuba "Motley's images of Cuba's people, arts, design, and public life are remarkable."--Ellen M. Harrington, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences "One can immediately look at Motley's photographs and feel the spirit of the Cuban people."--Gil...
"A stunning visual and heart-felt narrative of Cuba in all its major dimensions."--Insights Magazine "Words alone do not do Cuba ju...
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136,51 |
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Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba
ISBN: 9780813061566 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous people became "Indios," their language, appearance, and identity transformed by the domination imposed by a foreign model that Christianized and "civilized" them. Yet El Chorro de Maita retained many of its indigenous characteristics. In this volume--one of the first in English to examine and document an archaeological site in Cuba--Roberto Valcarcel Rojas analyzes the construction of colonial authority and the various attitudes and... During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous... |
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337,80 |
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The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity
ISBN: 9780813061962 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes proves that there was a multitude of factors that sharpen our knowledge of the development of race and nation in the Dominican Republic."--Millery Polyne, author of From Douglass to Duvalier "A fascinating book. Mayes discusses the roots of anti-Haitianism, the Dominican elite, and the ways in which race and nation have been intertwined in the history of the Dominican Republic. What emerges is a very interesting and engaging...
"Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes ...
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74,47 |
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Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
ISBN: 9780765638427 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world's seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire... Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, pir... |
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248,33 |
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Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
ISBN: 9780226283784 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions or even paradoxes in our current postcolonial era. In "Non-Sovereign Futures, " Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself.
Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism,... As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions ...
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418,32 |
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Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
ISBN: 9780765638410 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world's seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire... Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, pir... |
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869,33 |
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Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean
ISBN: 9780822322023 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging scholars to demonstrate how the actions and ideas of rural workers, peasants, migrants, and women formed an integral part of the growth of the export economies of the era and to examine the underacknowledged impact such groups had on the shaping of national histories.
Responding to... Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-...
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496,76 |
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Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies
ISBN: 9780822333043 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Look Away considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade are common to most of the Americas, Look Away points to postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part of the United States, the South both center and margin, victor and defeated, and empire and colony complicates ideas of the postcolonial. The...
Look Away considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the ...
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536,50 |
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Eine Betrachtung des Patwah auf der Insel Jamaika
ISBN: 9783668006539 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Karibik, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Jamaika, eine Insel der Sonne, des Meeres. Wer denkt dabei nicht an Bob Marley, an Reggae und gute Laune? Es leben rund 2,8 Millionen Einwohner auf der karibischen Insel und oft gestaltet sich der Alltag der jamaikanischen Bevolkerung schwierig. Es herrscht eine starke Spaltung in die reiche Ober- und die okonomisch schlecht situierte Unterschicht. Die Mittelschicht bildet neben der Oberschicht einen recht kleinen Teil der Bewohner...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Karibik, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Sprache: Deuts...
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182,51 |
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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas: New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
ISBN: 9780826519542 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic -Colombia, - after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, a fundamental recasting of Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in imperial...
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what ...
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224,76 |
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
ISBN: 9780812973693 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE - A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers
Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men--John Chatterton and John Mattera--are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE - A thrilling adventure of danger and d...
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89,84 |
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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory
ISBN: 9781137562180 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book, part critique, tribute, and memorial, makes the case that the 1979-1983 Revolution was a transnational event that deeply impacted politics and culture across the Caribbean. With relevance for all micro-states, the book reflects on how Grenada's small size shapes memory, political and poetic practice, and efforts at reconciliation. This unique book, part critique, tribute, and memorial, makes the case that the 1979-1983 Revolution was a transnational event that deeply impacted... |
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203,61 |
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Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic
ISBN: 9780810879058 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from America, Europe and Africa, were fused together for the first time: humans, religions, technologies, animals, plants and learned behaviors. The history of the Dominican Republic diverged from the patterns established by the rest of Latin America, as it ultimately gained independence not from Spain, but from Haiti, and Spain later recolonized the country during a watershed period in the 1860s. In the 20th century, the United States occupied the...
The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from A...
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546,43 |
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The Legacy of Eric Williams: Caribbean Scholar and Statesman
ISBN: 9789766405564 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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173,87 |
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Roume de Saint Laurent ... A Memoir
ISBN: 9789768244215 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A life .... a Caribbean life ... a life of a distinct Franco-Caribbean identity against the backdrop of the all-consuming French Revolution ... a life patchily documented in history ... a life seen through the eyes of the mistress, the wife .... a life of changing shape, of the shape-changer ... a life of political intrigue, of brutal slaughter, of exploration and love ... a life of a Caribbean adventurer, Philippe Rose Roume de St. Laurent. In this book, Besson continues his exploration of the French presence in the Caribbean in the 18th and early 19th century and of the formation of a...
A life .... a Caribbean life ... a life of a distinct Franco-Caribbean identity against the backdrop of the all-consuming French Revolution ... a life...
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181,83 |
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Castro's Revolution, Myth and Reality: Volume II
ISBN: 9781523713882 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cubans say that nobody will understand what living in Cuba today entails unless "you experience it." This book will give you, the reader, a clearer idea of what living in Cuba was during the first year of Castro's revolution and then through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the beginning of the XXI century. It will also give you a rare insight into Fidel Castro's personality and behavior; this, through numerous interviews with people who know him well and shared with the author stories never before published. It will be an eye opener that will let you know who the real Fidel Castro is.
Cubans say that nobody will understand what living in Cuba today entails unless "you experience it." This book will give you, the reader, a clearer id...
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94,33 |
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