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Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias
ISBN: 9781526120458 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias's paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by...
Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour so called 'R...
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488,78 |
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To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire
ISBN: 9781107498471 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French Republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labor...
The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for them...
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145,22 |
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Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.-Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation
ISBN: 9781498509169 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti's resistance to that signal event in its history. This study surveys the issues of economics, race, and realpolitik embedded in the political economy of U.S. interactions with Haiti that resulted in occupation.
The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti's resistance to that signal event in its history. This stu...
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190,63 |
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Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World
ISBN: 9781108440011 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new perspective on the nineteenth-century imperial world through one family's history across North America, the Caribbean and United Kingdom.
A new perspective on the nineteenth-century imperial world through one family's history across North America, the Caribbean and United Kingdom.
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154,48 |
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World War II and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9789766406240 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of the region as the Caribbean territories faced incredible upheaval and opportunity during the war years. The chapters in this volume respond to the need for information and analysis on the wide-ranging impact of the war on territories in the region (English, French, Spanish and Dutch).
Focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of the region as the Caribbean territories faced incredible upheaval and opportunity during...
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175,96 |
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The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: 9780739194003 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,29 |
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Tourism and Language in Vieques: An Ethnography of the Post-Navy Period
ISBN: 9781498555418 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Tourism and Language in Vieques, Luis Galanes-Valldejuli examines the fractured and heteroglossic dimensions of the Viequenses voice in direct relation to the occupation of the island from 1941 to 2003 and the tourism that became a primary driver of the economy in the post-Navy period.
In Tourism and Language in Vieques, Luis Galanes-Valldejuli examines the fractured and heteroglossic dimensions of the Viequenses voice in direct rela...
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513,22 |
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To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire
ISBN: 9781107101142 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French Republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labor...
The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for them...
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418,37 |
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
ISBN: 9780820353258 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined.
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve sch...
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126,28 |
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
ISBN: 9780820353265 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined.
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve sch...
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505,02 |
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Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean
ISBN: 9780803290990 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest.
Explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political impli...
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263,94 |
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Caribbean Revolutions: Cold War Armed Movements
ISBN: 9781108424752 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.
A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.
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367,48 |
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The Beckoning Tide: Holidays in Mayaro: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781988344065 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,46 |
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A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
ISBN: 9780300225556 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic
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244,39 |
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A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?
ISBN: 9780826221452 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bernhard links Virginia and Bermuda in a series of unintended consequences resulting from natural disaster, ignorance of native cultures, diplomatic intrigues, and the fateful arrival of the first Africans in both colonies. Written for general as well as academic audiences.
Bernhard links Virginia and Bermuda in a series of unintended consequences resulting from natural disaster, ignorance of native cultures, diplomatic i...
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169,53 |
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Los Estados Unidos y la PROMESA para Puerto Rico: un análisis de la Ley para la Supervisión, Administración y Estabilidad Económica de Puerto Rico
ISBN: 9780999808801 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,28 |
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Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780674982994 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Rugemer's comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves' resistance and slaveholders' power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other.
Edward Rugemer's comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves' resistance and slaveholders' power in two pros...
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190,11 |
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9780819577085 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity
A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity
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288,13 |
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9780819577092 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity
A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity
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90,43 |
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Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between
ISBN: 9781683400554 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the patterns of habitation and development are similar throughout the Caribbean, there was also a great deal of diversity. The authors in this volume use innovative techniques and perspectives to reveal the stories of places and times where the usual rules did not always apply.
While the patterns of habitation and development are similar throughout the Caribbean, there was also a great deal of diversity. The authors in this v...
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107,48 |
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