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Author: Michael Parker Pearson
Publisher: History Press Limited
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tale that has been more or less forgotten for centuries is brought back to life through archaelogical research and exploration in the forests of Madagascar.
Author: Quintard Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-05-17
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0393318893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that begins in 1528 and carries through to the present-day black success in politics and the surging interest in multiculturalism.
Author: Robert B. Betts
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore often than not, it was assumed that these myths surrounding him were reliable portrayals of the first black man to cross the United States.".
Author: Thomas Anderson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1498576060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how Westerners understood and processed Madagascar and its environment during the nineteenth century. Madagascar’s unique ecosystem crafted its reputation as a strange place full of unusual species. Westerners, however, often minimized Madagascar’s peculiar features to stress the commonality of its fauna and flora with the world. The attempt to understand the island through science led to a domestication of its environment that created the image of a tame and known world capable of being controlled and used by Western powers. At the heart of the exploration of Madagascar and its transformation in Western eyes from a strange world to a cash crop colony were missionaries and naturalists who relied upon global experiences to master the island by normalizing the peculiar qualities of Madagascar’s environment. This book reveals how the environment played a dominant role in understanding the island and its people, and how current environmental debates have evolved from earlier policies and discussions about the environment.
Author: Edmund Dene Morel
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maurie D. McInnis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-12
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0226559335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia. This innovative book uses Crowe’s paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving iconography of abolitionist art, and the role of visual culture in the transatlantic world of abolitionism. Tracing Crowe’s trajectory from Richmond across the American South and back to London—where his paintings were exhibited just a few weeks after the start of the Civil War—Maurie D. McInnis illuminates not only how his abolitionist art was inspired and made, but also how it influenced the international public’s grasp of slavery in America. With almost 140 illustrations, Slaves Waiting for Sale brings a fresh perspective to the American slave trade and abolitionism as we enter the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
Author: Hilary Bradt
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1841623415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to traveling in Madagascar that includes information on the country's customs, ceremonies, festivals, holidays, activities, parks, landmarks, language, transportation, and more.
Author: Robert Drury
Publisher: Full Well Ventures
Published: 2023-10-10
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book originally published in 1729, “Madagascar, or Robert Drury's Journal,” was the story of an English sailor on the Degrave who was shipwrecked at the age of 17 on the island of Madagascar. He would be trapped there for fifteen years. Upon returning to England, a book allegedly recounting his memoirs would be published in his name in 1729. Though it was an instant success, the credibility of the details in the book would be put into question by later historians. Modern scholars have proven though that many details in the book are authentic and that the story itself is one of the oldest written historical accounts of life in southern Madagascar during the 18th century. Numerous editions have been published through the years.
Author: Felix Schürmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-04-03
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 311076007X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.
Author: Pierre Van den Boogaerde
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: 2011-04-12
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1612043399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are more than one hundred shipwrecks off the coast of Madagascar. These are the stories from ancient to modern times.
