Author: Michael J. Jarvis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807895881
Size: 12.40 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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In The Eye Of All Trade

by Michael J. Jarvis, release date 2012-12-01, In The Eye Of All Trade Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download In The Eye Of All Trade books, In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade." Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. In doing so, he shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution starkly revealed the extent of British America's integration before 1775 as it shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster at the conflict's start. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy.

Author: David Head
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820353264
Size: 61.97 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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The Golden Age Of Piracy

by David Head, release date 2018, The Golden Age Of Piracy Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Golden Age Of Piracy books, Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined.

Author: Philip D. Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135702713
Size: 13.14 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Maritime Slavery

by Philip D. Morgan, release date 2018-12-07, Maritime Slavery Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Maritime Slavery books, Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas naturally captures attention for its scale and horror. After all, the Middle Passage was the largest forced, transoceanic migration in world history, now thought to have involved about 12.5 million African captives shipped in about 44,000 voyages that sailed between 1514 and 1866. No other coerced migration matches it for sheer size or gruesomeness. Maritime slavery is not, however, just about the movement of people as commodities, but rather, the involvement of all sorts of people, including slaves, in the transportation of those human commodities. Maritime slavery is thus not only about objects being moved but also about subjects doing the moving. Some slaves were actors, not simply the acted-upon. They were pilots, sailors, canoemen, divers, linguists, porters, stewards, cooks, and cabin boys, not forgetting all the ancillary workers in ports such as stevedores, warehousemen, labourers, washerwomen, tavern workers, and prostitutes. Maritime Slavery reflects this current interest in maritime spaces, and covers all the major Oceans and Seas. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

Author: Michael Guasco
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812209885
Size: 72.12 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Slaves And Englishmen

by Michael Guasco, release date 2014-01-11, Slaves And Englishmen Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Slaves And Englishmen books, Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched in law and practice, English men and women were well aware of the various forms of human bondage practiced in other nations and, in less systematic ways, their own country. They understood the legal and philosophic rationale of slavery in different cultural contexts and, for good reason, worried about the possibility of their own enslavement by foreign Catholic or Muslim powers. While opinions about the benefits and ethics of the institution varied widely, the language, imagery, and knowledge of slavery were a great deal more widespread in early modern England than we tend to assume. In wide-ranging detail, Slaves and Englishmen demonstrates how slavery shaped the ways the English interacted with people and places throughout the Atlantic world. By examining the myriad forms and meanings of human bondage in an international context, Michael Guasco illustrates the significance of slavery in the early modern world before the rise of the plantation system or the emergence of modern racism. As this revealing history shows, the implications of slavery were closely connected to the question of what it meant to be English in the Atlantic world.

Author: Heather Miyano Kopelson
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147986028X
Size: 73.28 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Faithful Bodies

by Heather Miyano Kopelson, release date 2016-04-05, Faithful Bodies Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Faithful Bodies books, In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of “white,” “black,” and “Indian” developed alongside religious boundaries between “Christian” and “heathen” and between “Catholic” and “Protestant.” Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this “puritan Atlantic,” religion determined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives could belong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics and English Quakers remained suspect. Colonists’ interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West Central Africans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptable boundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, and other public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks and Indians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery became law, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in English puritans’ eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part of their communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceeded unevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.

Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479808725
Size: 64.20 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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The Counter Revolution Of 1776

by Gerald Horne, release date 2014-04-18, The Counter Revolution Of 1776 Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Counter Revolution Of 1776 books, The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.

Author: James Minahan
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1610691636
Size: 30.63 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Ethnic Groups Of The Americas

by James Minahan, release date 2013, Ethnic Groups Of The Americas Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Ethnic Groups Of The Americas books, Intended to help students explore ethnic identity—one of the most important issues of the 21st century—this concise, one-stop reference presents rigorously researched content on the national groups and ethnicities of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Author: James Richard Larson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595749224
Size: 43.99 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The Eye Of Odin

by James Richard Larson, release date 2003-10-06, The Eye Of Odin Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Eye Of Odin books, Banished from his homeland in Norway for religious beliefs that ultimately resulted in murder, a Viking chieftain and his family must leave their home and travel to a new land. With the Christian king determined to stamp out the old gods, Thorvald Asvaldsson and his son Erik, who will one day be known as Erik the Red, embark on a perilous journey destined to change the world accompanied by the powerful seer Ragnar. Once restricted to sailing near their native shores, the dawn of the longship brings Viking warriors to the unsuspecting coastal areas of Europe. The warriors descend on settlements like a plague, attacking towns at will and displaying a savagery never before seen. At the height of the Viking expansion into Europe and the spread of the pagan religion, there is an evil in the world awaiting the travelers, an evil from the depths of hell itself.

Author: Robert Mudie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 25.35 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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A Popular Guide To The Observation Of Nature

by Robert Mudie, release date 1833, A Popular Guide To The Observation Of Nature Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download A Popular Guide To The Observation Of Nature books,

Author: Milja van Tielhof
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004125469
Size: 20.85 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Mother Of All Trades

by Milja van Tielhof, release date 2002-01-01, The Mother Of All Trades Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Mother Of All Trades books, This book aims to present a general history of the Amsterdam grain trade on the Baltic in the early-modern period, and concentrates particularly on the development and role of transaction costs.