Автор: Theodore John Kaczynski Название: Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition ISBN: 1944228039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781944228033 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3442.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth. Wild nature and humanity are fundamentally incompatible with technological growth. In Technological Slavery, Kaczynski argues that: (i) the unfolding human and environmental crises are the direct, inevitable result of technology itself; (ii) many of the stresses endured in contemporary life are not normal to the human condition, but unique to technological conditions; (iii) wilderness and human life close to nature are realistic and supreme ideals; and, (iv) a revolution to eliminate modern technology and attain these ideals is necessary and far more achievable than would first appear.
Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, Kaczynski weaves together a set of visionary social theories to form a revolutionary perspective on the dynamics of history and the evolution of societies. The result is a comprehensive challenge to the fundamental values and assumptions of the modern technology-driven world, pinning the cause of the rapidly unfolding catastrophe on technology itself, while offering a realistic hope for ultimate recovery. Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.
Автор: Bellagamba Alice Название: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The ISBN: 0521145260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521145268 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: To cast light on African perspectives of the history of slavery, top Africanist scholars have examined both conventional historical sources and less-explored sources of information. African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade is the first of two volumes providing a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and slave trade.
Описание: For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. The history of this startling and horrific period is perennially important, and recent scholarship has sought to uncover the experiences of the slaves themselves in order to uncover the voices of its many victims. "Slavery and Africa in the Caribbean" analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in slavery, gender, identity, religion, colonialism and the African diaspora.
In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell traces the lives of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy, and ultimately sent to Lovedale Institution, a Free Church of Scotland mission in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, for their safety. Because Scottish missionaries in Yemen interviewed each of the Oromo children shortly after their liberation, we have sixty-four structured life histories told by the children themselves.
In the historiography of slavery and the slave trade, first passage narratives are rare, groups of such narratives even more so. In this analytical group biography (or prosopography), Shell renders the experiences of the captives in detail and context that are all the more affecting for their dispassionate presentation. Comparing the children by gender, age, place of origin, method of capture, identity, and other characteristics, Shell enables new insights unlike anything in the existing literature for this region and period.
Children of Hope is supplemented by graphs, maps, and illustrations that carefully detail the demographic and geographic layers of the children's origins and lives after capture. In this way, Shell honors the individual stories of each child while also placing them into invaluable and multifaceted contexts.
Автор: Willis, John Ralph Название: Slaves and Slavery in Africa ISBN: 0714632015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714632018 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A chronicle of the difficulties of enforcing the abolition of slave trading on the East African coast. Cruising the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar in 1849-1850 and apprehending slave dhows; attempting to rescue their cargo of slaves, Sullivan shows the struggles of enforcing laws so far from government against severe opposition.
Автор: Monroe Название: The Precolonial State in West Africa ISBN: 1107040183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107040182 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Atlantic Era, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, was a period of dramatic political change in West Africa. This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Benin, a polity that emerged as a principal partner in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Автор: Bellagamba Название: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade ISBN: 0521199611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521199612 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. It will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa.
Описание: Britain`s 1807 law abolishing slave trading in its empire was put to the test during trials in Sierra Leone in 1812, an 1813 report on which is reissued here, alongside a short 1876 account of the 1772 Somerset v. Stewart case that represented a milestone on the road to abolition.
Название: Societies after slavery ISBN: 0822958481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822958482 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5888.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A major reference tool, providing thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, this book defines research on postemancipation societies in North America, South America, Latin America, and Africa.
Автор: Carpenter Nathan Riley, Lawrance Benjamin N. Название: Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity ISBN: 0253038073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253038074 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10659.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an "archive" that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anti-colonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and post-colonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.
Автор: Damian Alan Pargas Название: Fugitive slaves and spaces of freedom in north america ISBN: 0813056039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813056036 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” that fugitive slaves inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. South, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Contributors use three main categories of freedom to compare and contrast various aspects of slave escape in the period between the revolutionary era and the U.S. Civil War. They investigate sites of formal freedom, regions in which slavery was abolished and refugees were legally free; sites of semiformal freedom, areas in which abolition laws conflicted with federal fugitive slave laws; and sites of informal freedom, places within the slaveholding South where runaways formed maroon communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations. The essays discuss slaves' motivations for choosing these destinations, the social networks that supported their plans, what it was like to settle in their new societies, and how slave flight impacted broader debates about slavery. This volume redraws the map of escape and emancipation during this period, emphasizing the importance of place in defining the meaning and extent of freedom.
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