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Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana examines the political
economy surrounding the use of enslaved laborers in the capital of
Spanish imperial Cuba from 1762 to 1835. In this first book-length
exploration of state slavery on the island, Evelyn P. Jennings
demonstrates that the Spanish state's policies and practices in the
ownership and employment of enslaved workers after 1762 served as a
bridge from an economy based on imperial service to a rapidly
expanding plantation economy in the nineteenth century. The Spanish
state had owned and exploited enslaved workers in Cuba since the
early 1500s. After the humiliating yearlong British occupation of
Havana beginning in 1762, however, the Spanish Crown redoubled its
efforts to purchase and maintain thousands of royal slaves to
prepare Havana for what officials believed would be the imminent
renewal of war with England. Jennings shows that the composition of
workforces assigned to public projects depended on the availability
of enslaved workers in various interconnected labor markets within
Cuba, within the Spanish empire, and in the Atlantic world.
Moreover, the site of enslavement, the work required, and the
importance of that work according to imperial priorities influenced
the treatment and relative autonomy of those laborers as well as
the likelihood they would achieve freedom. As plantation production
for export purposes emerged as the most dynamic sector of Cuba's
economy by 1810, the Atlantic networks used to obtain enslaved
workers showed increasing strain. British abolitionism exerted
additional pressure on the slave trade. To offset the loss of
access to enslaved laborers, colonial officials expanded the
state's authority to sentence deserters, vagrants, and fugitives,
both enslaved and free, to labor in public works such as civil
construction, road building, and the creation of Havana's defensive
forts. State efforts in this area demonstrate the deep roots of
state enslavement and forced labor in nineteenth-century Spanish
colonialism and in capitalist development in the Atlantic world.
Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana places the processes of
building and sustaining the Spanish empire in the imperial hub of
Havana in a comparative perspective with other sites of empire
building in the Atlantic world. Furthermore, it considers the human
costs of reproducing the Spanish empire in a major Caribbean port,
the state's role in shaping the institution of slavery, and the
experiences of enslaved and other coerced laborers both before and
after the beginning of Cuba's sugar boom in the early nineteenth
century.
Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion
structured the possibilities and limitations of American
abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the
American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three
largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive
work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in
secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status
anxieties, market changes, biracial cooperation, and political
maneuvering as primary forces in the evolution of slavery in the
United States. Wright instead foregrounds the pivotal role religion
played in shaping the ideological contours of the early
abolitionist movement. Wright first examines the ideological
distinctions between religious conversion and purification in the
aftermath of the Revolution, when a small number of white
Christians contended that the nation must purify itself from
slavery before it could fulfill its religious destiny. Most white
Christians disagreed, focusing on visions of spiritual salvation
over the practical goal of emancipation. To expand salvation to
all, they created new denominations equipped to carry the gospel
across the American continent and eventually all over the globe.
These denominations established numerous reform organizations,
collectively known as the ""benevolent empire,"" to reckon with the
problem of slavery. One affiliated group, the American Colonization
Society (ACS), worked to end slavery and secure white supremacy by
promising salvation for Africa and redemption for the United
States. Yet the ACS and its efforts drew strong objections.
Proslavery prophets transformed expectations of expanded salvation
into a formidable antiabolitionist weapon, framing the ACS's
proponents as enemies of national unity. Abolitionist assertions
that enslavers could not serve as agents of salvation sapped the
most potent force in American nationalism Christianity and led to
schisms within the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches.
These divides exacerbated sectional hostilities and sent the nation
farther down the path to secession and war. Wright's provocative
analysis reveals that visions of salvation both created and almost
destroyed the American nation.
Over the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been
arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes
democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and
is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these
effects, activists have proposed alternative food networks that
draw on ideas and practices from pre-industrial agrarian
smallholder farming, as well as contemporary peasant movements.
This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault's method of
genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization
of the present to reveal the historical constitution of
contemporary alternative food discourses. While alternative food
activists appeal to food sovereignty and agrarian discourses to
counter the influence of neoliberal agricultural policies, these
discourses remain entangled with colonial logics. In particular,
the influence of Enlightenment ideas of improvement, colonial
practices of agriculture as a means to establish ownership, and
anthropocentric relations to the land. In combination with the
genealogical analysis, this book brings continental political
philosophy into conversation with Indigenous theories of
sovereignty and alternative food discourse in order to open new
spaces for thinking about food and politics in contemporary
Australia.
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia.
What they find is both beautiful and disturbing: wilderness,
desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing
countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place of black
and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and Fault Lines explores
the stories of six epic walks that shaped a nation: a journey of
Aboriginal Dreamtime ancestors; John Stuart's south-north trek
across the continent; anthropologist TGH Strehlow's childhood
journey down the Finke River; conservationist Arthur Groom's
reimagining of the country's heart as tourist play-ground; Bruce
Chatwin's seminal travel text about the Centre, and Eleanor Hogan's
portrait of Alice Springs, a troubled town. Retracing the legendary
pathways and stories of the Australian centre, Glenn Morrison finds
new answers to age-old queries.
The articulation between persistence and change is relevant to a
great number of different disciplines. It is particularly central
to the study of urban and rural forms in many different fields of
research, in geography, archaeology, architecture and history.
Resilience puts forward the idea that we can no longer be truly
satisfied with the common approaches used to study the dynamics of
landscapes, such as the palimpsest approach, the regressive method
and the semiological analysis amongst others, because they are
based on the separation between the past and the present, which
itself stems from the differentiation between nature and society.
This book combines spatio-temporalities, as described in
archeogeography, with concepts that have been developed in the
field of ecological resilience, such as panarchy and the adaptive
cycle. Thus revived, the morphological analysis in this work
considers landscapes as complex resilient adaptive systems. The
permanence observed in landscapes is no longer presented as the
endurance of inherited forms, but as the result of a dynamic that
is fed by this constant dialogue between persistence and change.
Thus, resilience is here decisively on the side of dynamics rather
than that of resistance.
Researchers, higher education administrators, and high school and
university students desire a sourcebook like The Model Minority
Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success. This second
edition has updated contents that will assist readers in locating
research and literature on the model minority stereotype. This
sourcebook is composed of an annotated bibliography on the
stereotype that Asian Americans are successful. Each chapter in The
Model Minority Stereotype is thematic and challenges the model
minority stereotype. Consisting of a twelfth and updated chapter,
this book continues to be the most comprehensive book written on
the model minority myth to date.
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Showcasing the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, this major international collection celebrates their contributions to literature and international culture.
Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology Daughters Of Africa illuminated the “silent, forgotten, underrated voices of black women” (Washington Post). Published to international acclaim, it was hailed as “an extraordinary body of achievement… a vital document of lost history” (Sunday Times).
New Daughters Of Africa continues that mission for a new generation, bringing together a selection of overlooked artists of the past with fresh and vibrant voices that have emerged from across the globe in the past two decades, from Antigua to Zimbabwe with numerous South African contributors. Key figures join popular contemporaries in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them. Each of the pieces in this remarkable collection demonstrates an uplifting sense of sisterhood, honours the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and addresses the common obstacles women writers of colour face as they negotiate issues of race, gender and class, and confront vital matters of independence, freedom and oppression.
Custom, tradition, friendships, sisterhood, romance, sexuality, intersectional feminism, the politics of gender, race, and identity—all and more are explored in this glorious collection of work from over 200 writers. New Daughters Of Africa spans a wealth of genres—autobiography, memoir, oral history, letters, diaries, short stories, novels, poetry, drama, humour, politics, journalism, essays and speeches—to demonstrate the diversity and remarkable literary achievements of black women.
New Daughters Of Africa features a number of well-known South African contributors including Gabeba Baderoon, Nadia Davids, Diana Ferrus, Vangile Gantsho, Barbara Masekela, Lebogang Mashile and Sisonke Msimang.
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and
Communications Technologies provides an introduction to the
community use of information and communications technologies, an
overview of the various areas in which ICT is impacting local
development and a set of case studies of CI.
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both
South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this
groundbreaking volume, Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh
explore the particular meanings of a Dougla identity and examine
Dougla maneuverability both at home and in the diaspora. The
authors scrutinize the perception of Douglaness over time,
contemporary Douglas negotiations of social demands, their
expansion of ethnicity as an intersectional identity, and the
experiences of Douglas within the diaspora outside the Caribbean.
Through an examination of how Douglas experience their claim to
multiracialism and how ethnic identity may be enforced or
interrupted, the authors firmly situate this analysis in ongoing
debates about multiracial identity. Based on interviews with over
one hundred Douglas, Barratt and Ranjitsingh explore the multiple
subjectivities Douglas express, confirm, challenge, negotiate, and
add to prevailing understandings. Contemplating this, Dougla in the
Twenty-First Century adds to the global discourse of multiethnic
identity and how it impacts living both in the Caribbean, where it
is easily recognizable, and in the diaspora, where the Dougla
remains a largely unacknowledged designation. This book
deliberately expands the conversation beyond the limits of
biraciality and the Black/white binary and contributes nuance to
current interpretations of the lives of multiracial people by
introducing Douglas as they carve out their lives in the Caribbean.
In a globalizing and expanding world, the need for research
centered on analysis, representation, and management of landscape
components has become critical. By providing development strategies
that promote resilient relations, this book promotes more
sustainable and cultural approaches for territorial construction.
The Handbook of Research on Methods and Tools for Assessing
Cultural Landscape Adaptation provides emerging research on the
cultural relationships between a community and the ecological
system in which they live. This book highlights important topics
such as adaptive strategies, ecosystem services, and operative
methods that explore the expanding aspects of territorial
transformation in response to human activities. This publication is
an important resource for academicians, graduate students,
engineers, and researchers seeking a comprehensive collection of
research focused on the social and ecological components in
territory development.
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