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Author: Jefferson Dillman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0817318585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Dillman elegantly explores the evolution of English and British perceptions of the landscape of the West Indies and how their representations were used to support the development of the islands they colonized"--
Author: Michael J. Jarvis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 0807895881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Robin Andersen
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2023-03-28
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 147664943X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst televised in 2011, Death in Paradise remains one of the most popular shows in the U.K. The detective series is frequently ignored, panned or belittled by television critics, but viewers disagree. Bringing in more than eight million viewers a season, it is accessible in more than 235 global territories. This first book-length assessment of Death in Paradise offers a fresh take on the popular BBC drama. The book positions the show within broader contexts that illustrate its origins and timeless appeal, from the first conceptualizations of "paradise" in ancient cultures to the creation of the classic detective story in the 1920s. The detective inspectors on Death in Paradise come from a long line of fictional eccentrics who excel at finding quirky clues, seeing surprising connections and employing help from other officials and agencies. Through exploration of these narrative elements and more, the author reveals deeper themes of justice, inclusion and environmentalism.
Author: Alexander Etkind
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-29
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0745673546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s culturalhistory. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conqueredforeign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, therebycolonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision ofcolonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizingone’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholarsof empire, colonialism and globalization. Starting with the fur trade, which shaped its enormous territory,and ending with Russia’s collapse in 1917, Etkind exploresserfdom, the peasant commune, and other institutions of internalcolonization. His account brings out the formative role of foreigncolonies in Russia, the self-colonizing discourse of Russianclassical historiography, and the revolutionary leaders’illusory hopes for an alliance with the exotic, pacifistsectarians. Transcending the boundaries between history andliterature, Etkind examines striking writings about Russia’simperial experience, from Defoe to Tolstoy and from Gogol toConrad. This path-breaking book blends together historical, theoretical andliterary analysis in a highly original way. It will be essentialreading for students of Russian history and literature and foranyone interested in the literary and cultural aspects ofcolonization and its aftermath.
Author: Mark Leone
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9004343482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAtlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass’s 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain—a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins’ collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture with which the collection as a whole is concerned. In crossing the Atlantic, Douglass also completed his journey from slavery to freedom, and from political and cultural marginality into subjective and creative autonomy. Atlantic Crossings traces the stages of that journey in chapters on literature, archaeology, and spatial culture that consider both roots and routes—landscapes of New World slavery, subordination, and state-sponsored surveillance, and narratives of resistance, liberation, and intercultural exchange generated by transatlantic connectivities and the transnational transfer of ideas. Contributors Lee M. Jenkins, Mark P. Leone, Katie Ahern, Miranda Corcoran, Ann Coughlan, Kathryn H. Deeley, Adam Fracchia, Mary Furlong Minkoff, Tracy H. Jenkins, Dan O’Brien, Eoin O’Callaghan, Elizabeth Pruitt, Benjamin A. Skolnik and Stefan Woehlke
Author: Philip D. Morgan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0197555454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.
Author: Lee Sessions
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2024-06-18
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0300277687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island’s natural history and culture to redefine racial identity and reassert authority. These practices occurred in the face of challenges to their political power from Cubans of mixed race and as Cuba’s dependence on sugar led to ecological and economic precarity. Lee Sessions uses close visual analysis to investigate how white elites wielded power by manipulating material culture, placing in conversation for the first time the natural history museums, botanical gardens, and thousands of paintings, drawings, and prints produced in and about Cuba from 1820 to 1860. This important and novel book explores how groups used material culture to imagine their own future at a moment when racial and political dynamics were changing rapidly, while facing an ecological disaster of unimaginable scale.
Author: Sarah Neville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-06
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1316515990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
Author: Maggi Smith Hall
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1796082848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlavors of St. Augustine, an Historic Cookbook offers over 200 extraordinary recipes and more than 100 beautiful pen and ink sketches for your enjoyment of St. Augustine, America’s oldest continuously occupied city, a city of five flags and a thousand flavors. At last recipes from all of St. Augustine’s historical periods have been carefully researched, compiled, and presented in a beautifully illustrated cookbook and handbook of history. Bring delicious recipes and fascinating stories from Timucua, Spanish, British, Minorcans, American Settlers, Flagler’s Gilded Age, Lighthouse Keepers, and others into your kitchen.
Author: Andrew Kettler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108846599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental, which culminated in the creation of a progressive tautology that linked Africa and waste through a conceptual hendiadys born of capitalist licentiousness. The African subject was defined as a scented object, appropriated as filthy to create levels of ownership through discourse that marked African peoples as unable to access spaces of Western modernity. Embodied cultural knowledge was potent enough to alter the biological function of the five senses to create a European olfactory consciousness made to sense the African other as foul. Fascinating, informative, and deeply researched, The Smell of Slavery exposes that concerns with pungency within the Western self were emitted outward upon the freshly dug outhouse of the mass slave grave called the Atlantic World.
