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A Promise in Haiti: A Reporter's Notes on Families and Daily Lives
ISBN: 9780826517838 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a devastating earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010, the world reacted with a collective, yet distant, horror. For Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Mark Curnutte, hearing the news provoked a far more visceral response. Curnutte had grown to love Haiti and its people as only someone who had lived with Haiti's families could.
When a devastating earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010, the world reacted with a collective, yet distant, horror. For |
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The Book of Trinidad (HARDCOVER)
ISBN: 9789768054364 / Angielski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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303,32 |
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Twenty-Nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa: A Review of Missionary Work and Adventure, 1829-1858
ISBN: 9781108016698 / Angielski / Miękka / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important account of missionary work in the West Indies and Nigeria at a time of great social change.
An important account of missionary work in the West Indies and Nigeria at a time of great social change.
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The History of the Maroons: From Their Origin to the Establishment of Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9781108024143 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Jamaica, Robert Charles Dallas (1754 1824) was prolific author in a variety of genres, dedicating all of his work to 'the defence of society and reason against Jacobinism and confusion', having been forced to leave his residence in France by the Revolution. Despite 'an ardent tendency in my heart to disapprove the slave-trade', The History of the Maroons, published in 1803, offered a qualified acceptance of the institution of slavery in a fallen world, and addressed criticisms of planters' behaviour and the government's conduct against the rebellious Jamaican Maroons - runaway slaves...
Born in Jamaica, Robert Charles Dallas (1754 1824) was prolific author in a variety of genres, dedicating all of his work to 'the defence of society a...
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333,65 |
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The History of the Maroons: From Their Origin to the Establishment of Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9781108024150 / Angielski / Miękka / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Jamaica, Robert Charles Dallas (1754 1824) was prolific author in a variety of genres, dedicating all of his work to 'the defence of society and reason against Jacobinism and confusion', having been forced to leave his residence in France by the Revolution. Despite 'an ardent tendency in my heart to disapprove the slave-trade', The History of the Maroons, published in 1803, offered a qualified acceptance of the institution of slavery in a fallen world, and addressed criticisms of planters' behaviour and the government's conduct against the rebellious Jamaican Maroons - runaway slaves...
Born in Jamaica, Robert Charles Dallas (1754 1824) was prolific author in a variety of genres, dedicating all of his work to 'the defence of society a...
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369,04 |
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Civil and Criminal Justice in the West Indies
ISBN: 9781108024297 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Fortunatus Dwarris (1786 1860) was an English barrister, civil servant and abolitionist. After graduating from University College, Oxford, in 1808 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1811. In 1823 Dwarris was appointed a commissioner for an Imperial Commission of Inquiry on the state of legal and slave codes of the self-governing colonies of the British West Indies. This detailed volume, first published in 1827, contains three reports summarising the Commission's findings and recommendations. Focusing on the islands of Barbados, Tobago, Dominica, and Antigua, this volume...
Sir Fortunatus Dwarris (1786 1860) was an English barrister, civil servant and abolitionist. After graduating from University College, Oxford, in 1808...
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The African Slave Trade
ISBN: 9781108027687 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786 1845) was a committed social reformer throughout his life and became involved with the abolition of slavery during his time as an MP, taking over the leadership of the abolition movement in the British House of Commons after William Wilberforce retired in 1825. Following the abolition of slavery in Britain and its colonies in 1833, and his loss of his Parliamentary seat in 1837, Buxton concerned himself with the slave trade along the African coast still perpetrated by Africans, Arabs and the Portuguese. The results of his research and conclusions were originally...
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786 1845) was a committed social reformer throughout his life and became involved with the abolition of slavery during his ...
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202,21 |
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The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers
ISBN: 9781108027502 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800 1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ghostly sketches and anecdotes was a Victorian best-seller and Crowe's most popular work. Sixteen editions appeared in six years, and it was translated into several European languages. The stories are intertwined with Crowe's own interpretations and commentaries which attack the scepticism of enlightenment thought and orthodox religion. Crowe seeks instead to encourage and re-invigorate a sense of wonder and mystery in life by emphasising the...
The novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800 1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ...
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The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers
ISBN: 9781108027496 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800 1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ghostly sketches and anecdotes was a Victorian best-seller and Crowe's most popular work. Sixteen editions appeared in six years, and it was translated into several European languages. The stories are intertwined with Crowe's own interpretations and commentaries which attack the scepticism of enlightenment thought and orthodox religion. Crowe seeks instead to encourage and re-invigorate a sense of wonder and mystery in life by emphasising the...
The novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800 1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ...
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298,26 |
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A Treatise on the Stability of Ships
ISBN: 9781108026437 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Edward James Reed (1830 1906) was appointed chief constructor of the Navy in 1863, and later founded his own ship design consultancy. He pioneered the methodical use of scientific calculations to determine a ship's weight, strength and stability, and was responsible for a number of revolutionary designs at a crucial period, when ships began to be armoured or rebuilt in iron in response to more powerful weaponry. This book, first published in 1885, sets out his approach to the problem of ensuring stability in iron-built ships. Reed discusses scientific theories of flotation, buoyancy and...
Sir Edward James Reed (1830 1906) was appointed chief constructor of the Navy in 1863, and later founded his own ship design consultancy. He pioneered...
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Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
ISBN: 9780817356484 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has hosted and the multitude of ways in which diverse people from varied parts of the world have coexisted in and reacted against systems of inequality, Jamaica has long been a major focus of archaeological studies of the colonial period.This volume assembles for the first time the results of nearly three decades of historical archaeology in Jamaica. Scholars present...
As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system...
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135,98 |
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Late Ceramic Age Societies in the Eastern Caribbean. Bar S1273
ISBN: 9781841716268 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This present volume discusses the period between, approximately, AD 600 and 1500. The geographic region concerned is limited to the eastern part of the Antilles, including Trinidad, the Lesser Antilles, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and the adjacent coastal area of South America. The emphasis is on the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles as research has progressed so much in especially this area during the past decade, while other regions such as the Windward Islands to the south have been less studied. The papers include: Espaces naturels et territories amerindiens dans la Caraibe...
This present volume discusses the period between, approximately, AD 600 and 1500. The geographic region concerned is limited to the eastern part of th...
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556,09 |
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Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780817356675 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and colonial territories, the Caribbean shares a common heritage at some levels, yet at the same time there are vast historical and cultural differences. Likewise, approaches to Caribbean heritage preservation are similarly diverse in range and scope.This volume addresses the problem of how Caribbean...
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from s...
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The West Indies in 1837: Being the Journal of a Visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, and Jamaica
ISBN: 9781108024310 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph Sturge (1793 1859) and his co-author, Thomas Harvey (1812 1884), were Quaker philanthropists concerned with the treatment of former slaves. Both men had reservations about the 'apprenticeship' system introduced by the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, and between 1836 and 1837 they visited the West Indies to assess the usefulness of the system in action. Their book was first published in 1838, and a second, revised edition (reissued here) came out in the same year. It contains Sturge and Harvey's observations on the failures of apprenticeship. Organised by island and presented in the form of...
Joseph Sturge (1793 1859) and his co-author, Thomas Harvey (1812 1884), were Quaker philanthropists concerned with the treatment of former slaves. Bot...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation to the Present Time
ISBN: 9781108024754 / Angielski / Miękka / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since the sugar industry relied heavily on it. His most important work was The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, originally published in two volumes in 1793, and subsequently expanded (this fifth edition of 1819 reaching five volumes) with many plates and maps. In this wide-ranging work, he described his aim as 'to describe the manners and dispositions of the present inhabitants, as influenced by climate,...
Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation to the Present Time
ISBN: 9781108024761 / Angielski / Miękka / 638 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since the sugar industry relied heavily on it. His most important work was The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, originally published in two volumes in 1793, and subsequently expanded (this fifth edition of 1819 reaching five volumes) with many plates and maps. In this wide-ranging work, he described his aim as 'to describe the manners and dispositions of the present inhabitants, as influenced by climate,...
Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation to the Present Time
ISBN: 9781108024785 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since the sugar industry relied heavily on it. His most important work was The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, originally published in two volumes in 1793, and subsequently expanded (this fifth edition of 1819 reaching five volumes) with many plates and maps. In this wide-ranging work, he described his aim as 'to describe the manners and dispositions of the present inhabitants, as influenced by climate,...
Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t...
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379,10 |
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation to the Present Time
ISBN: 9781108024792 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since the sugar industry relied heavily on it. His most important work was The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, originally published in two volumes in 1793, and subsequently expanded (this fifth edition of 1819 reaching five volumes) with many plates and maps. In this wide-ranging work, he described his aim as 'to describe the manners and dispositions of the present inhabitants, as influenced by climate,...
Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t...
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379,10 |
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation to the Present Time
ISBN: 9781108024778 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since the sugar industry relied heavily on it. His most important work was The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, originally published in two volumes in 1793, and subsequently expanded (this fifth edition of 1819 reaching five volumes) with many plates and maps. In this wide-ranging work, he described his aim as 'to describe the manners and dispositions of the present inhabitants, as influenced by climate,...
Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t...
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409,43 |
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Facebook Dialogues & Conversations Volume (II): Experimenting with Social Networks
ISBN: 9781456543426 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FACEBOOK Dialogues & Conversations (II) is an account of different topics discussed on my Facebook Wall. From sophisticated thoughts down to everyday talks, conversations can start very smoothly then turn extremely hot. These dialogues are presented to you in their original forms with minor editing. Since my Facebook friends speak and write in different languages, you will have the leisure to read those postings in English, in French and in Haitian Creole. To protect individual privacy, I used initials and, at times first names. It is my anticipation and my hope that you will enjoy the topics...
FACEBOOK Dialogues & Conversations (II) is an account of different topics discussed on my Facebook Wall. From sophisticated thoughts down to everyday ...
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