Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture
• In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen ... Lees meer

The Problem of Freedom

Thomas C Holt

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture
• The Jamaican slave revolt of 1831-32 precipitated the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonial empire. A century later, the labor rebellio... Lees meer

Caribbean Contours

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• Stretching from the Bahamas in the north to the Guianas on the South American mainland, the societies of the Caribbean have been shaped over time be t... Lees meer

The African Religions of Brazil

Roger Bastide

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• Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American stud... Lees meer

A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905

Walter Rodney

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• Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well-in... Lees meer

Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar

Walton Look Lai

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• In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire ... Lees meer

Blackness and Race Mixture

Peter Wade

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• Peter Wade focuses on the "racial democracy" of Columbia--specifically the black population of the Chocó province--to explore the significance of cult... Lees meer

Cannibal Encounters

Philip P Boucher

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• Winner of the French Colonial Historical Society's Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Philip Boucher analyzes the images--and the realities--of European rel... Lees meer

Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race

Pierre Dasalles

• Paperback | Engels | Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture
• Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of El... Lees meer

Slave Rebellion in Brazil

João José Reis

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• The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most impo... Lees meer

New World Soundings

Richard M Morse

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• Originally published in 1989. In New World Soundings , cultural historian Richard Morse takes a series of sharply focused looks at the Americas. He in... Lees meer