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Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: Exploring Ethnic Identity on Curacao
ISBN: 9781138008557 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jews of the Dutch Caribbean addresses identity and ethnicity, through a detailed study of a little-known group in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. It asks readers to take a broad perspective on the contexts that play a role in ethnicity including, for example, ecology, history, kinship, commerce and language use in everyday life and, crucially, rituals. It asks readers to take a broad perspective on the contexts that play a role in ethnicity and draws on ethnographic research to analyze ethnic identities and look at how it is shaped and negotiated.
Jews of the Dutch Caribbean addresses identity and ethnicity, through a detailed study of a little-known group in Curacao, Netherlands Antill...
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223,41 |
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A History of the West Indies: Containing the Natural, Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Each Island
ISBN: 9781138011069 / Angielski / Miękka / 1472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disappointed with the purely secular tone of the earlier West Indian histories, Thomas Coke concentrated on the history of the missions in the Caribbean. This work was written immediately after the abolition of slavery, but 25 years before emancipation, and based on a wealth of documentation.
Disappointed with the purely secular tone of the earlier West Indian histories, Thomas Coke concentrated on the history of the missions in the Caribbe...
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223,41 |
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1800-1885. Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Historia de la parroquia de Ponce durante el siglo XIX
ISBN: 9781523888702 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No todo el tiempo se escribe de historia y no todo el tiempo se investiga esa disciplina. Hoy nos hallamos con los resultados de una investigacion exhaustiva del libro titulado: "1800 - 1885. Nuestra Senora de la Guadalupe, historia de la parroquia de Ponce durante el siglo XIX," cuyo autor es el profesor de historia de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico, don Eli Oquendo Rodriguez. Este ha reanudado y reforzado los trabajos investigativos en la disciplina historica que comenzaron los historiadores pioneros de la Universidad Catolica: Mons. Vicente Murga y los hermanos Augusto y...
No todo el tiempo se escribe de historia y no todo el tiempo se investiga esa disciplina. Hoy nos hallamos con los resultados de una investigacion exh...
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79,82 |
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The Incredible Wedding of a Dictator
ISBN: 9781519323767 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,88 |
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Chronological History of the West Indies - Vol. I
ISBN: 9781532812347 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,34 |
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Marking Milestones
ISBN: 9789769569393 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Marking Milestones: 21 Keynote Speeches about Successful Institutions and Outstanding Leaders," Professor Errol Miller addresses fundamental issues through the lens of these institutions and explores the unprecedented sacrifices made by some of our most often unheralded leaders. These speeches, written in an easy-going, non-academic style, persuasively remind us of who we are, the road we have travelled and a future of possibilities. This iconic collection, laced with humour, history and heart, will give you a deep understanding of the circumstances and the crises that impact us...
In "Marking Milestones: 21 Keynote Speeches about Successful Institutions and Outstanding Leaders," Professor Errol Miller addresses fundamental issue...
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139,34 |
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Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits Into War Oh at Morant Bay
ISBN: 9789766379063 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing 'reign of terror' is a watershed in Jamaican history. Paul Bogle and his allies, overwhelmed by colonial firepower and betrayed by Maroons in service to the British Crown, were mercilessly cut down by the elites (local and foreign) who justified their actions based on the continued belief in the subjugation and suppression of the black race by the white race, emancipation notwithstanding. In Colour for Colour Skin for Skin, Clinton Hutton deconstructs the ideological, cultural,...
The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing 'reign of terror' is a watershed in Ja...
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126,13 |
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Nationalists Abroad: The Jamaica Progressive League and the Foundations of Jamaican Independence
ISBN: 9789766378653 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenges the notion that demands for independence developed in Jamaica or had a strong local following. Instead, Timm posits and proves that the strongest impetus for anti-colonial demands came from a small group of expatriates in the USA, whose ideas were met with strong and persistent skepticism at all levels of Jamaican society, including the political elite.
Challenges the notion that demands for independence developed in Jamaica or had a strong local following. Instead, Timm posits and proves that the str...
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227,24 |
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Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
ISBN: 9781469611693 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial society to recognize their grievances. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the achievement of independence in 1962. Alexander Bustamante, a moneylender, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its progeny, the Jamaica...
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, ...
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184,60 |
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The Jamaicans: Children of God in the Promised Land
ISBN: 9781478708674 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,24 |
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The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery
ISBN: 9781442231399 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its...
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies...
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510,07 |
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El protocolo de la Miel y la Frontera Dominico-Haitiana: Notas para la historia de la frontera
ISBN: 9781477415474 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El 29 de Febrero de 1776 se firmo en San Miguel de la Atalaya un tratado que en lo fundamental convino entre Francia y Espana el trazado de una linea fronteriza divisoria entre las colonias en que desde entonces quedaba fragmentada la isla y que eventualmente darian lugar a los Estados actuales de la Republica de Haiti y la Republica Dominicana. Todos los tratados subsiguientes; Aranjuez en 1777 y Basilea en 1795 conservaron el trazado fronterizo originalmente descrito y acordado por medio del Tratado de San Miguel de la Atalaya. Pocos conocen que el trazado fronterizo que divide a la...
El 29 de Febrero de 1776 se firmo en San Miguel de la Atalaya un tratado que en lo fundamental convino entre Francia y Espana el trazado de una linea ...
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57,83 |
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
ISBN: 9781480205697 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,89 |
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Najaso: A Catalyst For Change: A History of the National Association of Jamaican and Supportive Organizations (NAJASO), Inc.,1
ISBN: 9781491271599 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,80 |
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Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba
ISBN: 9780807155295 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a result of an increased population and concurrent economic expansion, the United States widened its trade relationship with Cuba and Brazil, importing half of Brazil's coffee exports and 82 percent of Cuba's total exports by 1877. Disease, Resistance, and Lies examines the impact of these burgeoning... In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosiv... |
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155,45 |
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Union Island, Caribbean Paradise, Then & Now
ISBN: 9780991337408 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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Lajas, desde los amerindios hasta el siglo XIX: Historia, sociedad y cultura de un pueblo
ISBN: 9781494306779 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esta obra presenta un estudio historico, utilizando tanto fuente primaria como secundaria, que analiza la trayectoria sociocultural del Municipio de Lajas a traves de su historia, desde la llegada de los primeros seres humanos, hasta finalizado el siglo XIX. El libro esta dividido en seis capitulos. El primero de ellos nos describe de manera breve la geografia del municipio. El segundo capitulo nos analiza el desarrollo de las poblaciones indigenas en la zona y su eventual contacto con los espanoles hasta el siglo XVIII. El tercer apartado se refiere al proceso fundacional y las razones que...
Esta obra presenta un estudio historico, utilizando tanto fuente primaria como secundaria, que analiza la trayectoria sociocultural del Municipio de L...
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79,62 |
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The Memoir of Toussaint Louverture
ISBN: 9780199937226 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a...
Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the m...
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411,29 |
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We Move Tonight: The Making of the Grenada Revolution
ISBN: 9781492724582 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On March 13th 1979, West Indians were stunned as they awoke to the news of the first successful revolution in the English Speaking Caribbean. Four and a half years later the revolution succumbed to tragedy and US military invasion. This extraordinary book is the first to give the inside story of the thinking, the internal debates, concrete plans and actions of the Grenadian revolutionary leaders as they both responded to events unfolding in the 1970's and sought to shape them. The different and distinct personalities of the political and military leaders of the revolution come to life, as the...
On March 13th 1979, West Indians were stunned as they awoke to the news of the first successful revolution in the English Speaking Caribbean. Four and...
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51,68 |
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Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838
ISBN: 9780415758925 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women s lives.
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- an... |
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242,84 |
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