Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth centuryDelves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitment of seamen, its fractious labour relations and mutinies, and how these were resolved by law. One chapte...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth centuryDelves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitment of seamen, its fractious labour relations and mutinies, and how these were resolved by law. One chapte...Lasīt vairāk
Matthew Pethers, Laurel V. Hankins, Daniel Diez Couch, Lori Rogers-Stokes, Marion Rust, Nicholas K. Mohlmann, Daniel Diez Couch, Keri Holt, John Saillant, D. Berton Emerson...
Sērija : Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Apr-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Bucknell University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684485109)
The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices-from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material sh...Lasīt vairāk
Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a marchlands in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.This book paints a pict...Lasīt vairāk
Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a marchlands in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.This book paints a pict...Lasīt vairāk
How the death of a fifteen-year-old girl aboard the slave ship Recovery shook the British establishment.On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for floggin...Lasīt vairāk
Captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century.Bristol from Below captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eigh...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jan-2013, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781135423483)
This book takes as its inspiration the assumption that the atmosphere of intellectual openness, scientific inquiry, aspiration towards diversity, and freedom from political pressure that once flourished in the American Psychological Association has b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jan-2013, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781135423551)
This book takes as its inspiration the assumption that the atmosphere of intellectual openness, scientific inquiry, aspiration towards diversity, and freedom from political pressure that once flourished in the American Psychological Association has b...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jan-2013, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300189063)
After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nic...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jan-2013, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300189063)
After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nic...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Dec-2012, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781136300523)
This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Dec-2012, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781136300592)
This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the...Lasīt vairāk
I started to write this work in 1994, my first serious attempt at writing creatively. I discovered that I just had to get them down onto paper and out of my head. In this collection I try to reveal the range of intimate emotions and thoughts that are...Lasīt vairāk
The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers expl...Lasīt vairāk
Clifford J. Rogers, Nicholas S. Kanellopoulos, Kelly DeVries, John France, Bernard S Bachrach, Joanne K. Lekea, Malcolm Mercer, Mark Dupuy, Michael Basista, Michael Ehrlich...
Latest volume of original articles on all aspects of warfare in the middle ages.The broad topic of medieval warfare is here explored across the full chronological range of the Middle Ages, using a wide variety of approaches, including literary, proso...Lasīt vairāk
Nicholas Stern, F. Halsey Rogers, Jean-Jacques Dethier
Sērija : Munich Lectures in Economics
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Aug-2006, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: MIT Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780262284349)
Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "e;human progress"e;) globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including hig...Lasīt vairāk
Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a livel...Lasīt vairāk
Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a livel...Lasīt vairāk
