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Man and Nature - Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action (Hardcover): George Perkins Marsh Man and Nature - Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action (Hardcover)
George Perkins Marsh
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana - State Slavery in Defense and Development, 1762-1835 (Hardcover): Evelyn Jennings Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana - State Slavery in Defense and Development, 1762-1835 (Hardcover)
Evelyn Jennings
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Rise from the Blue (Hardcover): Boade Mandeng Rise from the Blue (Hardcover)
Boade Mandeng
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bonds of Salvation - How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (Hardcover): Ben Wright Bonds of Salvation - How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (Hardcover)
Ben Wright
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Extravagant Life to Extravagant Love (Hardcover): Angela Williams Extravagant Life to Extravagant Love (Hardcover)
Angela Williams
R1,025 R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Save R144 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Towards Socially Integrative Cities - Perspectives on Urban Sustainability in Europe and China (Hardcover): Bernhard Muller,... Towards Socially Integrative Cities - Perspectives on Urban Sustainability in Europe and China (Hardcover)
Bernhard Muller, Jian Liu, Jianming Cai
R2,755 R2,324 Discovery Miles 23 240 Save R431 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unsettling Food Politics - Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignty in Australia (Paperback): Christopher Mayes Unsettling Food Politics - Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignty in Australia (Paperback)
Christopher Mayes
R1,100 Discovery Miles 11 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Songlines and Fault Lines - Epic Walks of the Red Centre (Paperback): Glenn Morrison Songlines and Fault Lines - Epic Walks of the Red Centre (Paperback)
Glenn Morrison
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Resilience - Persistence and Change in Landscape Forms (Hardcover): S. Robert Resilience - Persistence and Change in Landscape Forms (Hardcover)
S. Robert
R4,080 Discovery Miles 40 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Model Minority Stereotype - Demystifying Asian American Success (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Nicholas D. Hartlep The Model Minority Stereotype - Demystifying Asian American Success (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Nicholas D. Hartlep
R3,130 Discovery Miles 31 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Ice Queen (Hardcover): Felicia Farber Ice Queen (Hardcover)
Felicia Farber
R771 R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
New Daughters Of Africa - An International Anthology Of Writing By Women Of African Descent (Paperback): Margaret Busby New Daughters Of Africa - An International Anthology Of Writing By Women Of African Descent (Paperback)
Margaret Busby
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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 (Paperback): Gurstein Community Informatics-Enabling Communities With Information and Communications Technologies (Paperback)
Gurstein
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries (Hardcover): Tiit Tammaru, Daniel Baldwin Hess Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries (Hardcover)
Tiit Tammaru, Daniel Baldwin Hess
R1,686 Discovery Miles 16 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Long Island Migrant Labor Camps - Dust for Blood (Hardcover): Mark A Torres Long Island Migrant Labor Camps - Dust for Blood (Hardcover)
Mark A Torres
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dougla in the Twenty-First Century - Adding to the Mix (Hardcover): Sue Ann Barratt, Aleah N. Ranjitsingh Dougla in the Twenty-First Century - Adding to the Mix (Hardcover)
Sue Ann Barratt, Aleah N. Ranjitsingh
R3,166 Discovery Miles 31 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

From INTENT to IMPACT - The 5 Dualities of Diversity and Inclusion (Hardcover): Monica Diaz From INTENT to IMPACT - The 5 Dualities of Diversity and Inclusion (Hardcover)
Monica Diaz
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Magazine Articles of Frederick Douglass (an African American Heritage Book) (Hardcover): Frederick Douglas The Magazine Articles of Frederick Douglass (an African American Heritage Book) (Hardcover)
Frederick Douglas
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam (Hardcover): Nora Katharina Faltmann, Judith Ehlert Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam (Hardcover)
Nora Katharina Faltmann, Judith Ehlert
R1,619 Discovery Miles 16 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass (An African American Heritage Book) (Hardcover): Frederick Douglass Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass (An African American Heritage Book) (Hardcover)
Frederick Douglass
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Families, Families, Everywhere (Hardcover): Megan E. Mills Families, Families, Everywhere (Hardcover)
Megan E. Mills
R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Caste and Life Narratives (Hardcover): S Shankar Caste and Life Narratives (Hardcover)
S Shankar; Charu Gupta
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation (Hardcover): Franziska Goermar, Thilo Lang Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation (Hardcover)
Franziska Goermar, Thilo Lang
R1,689 Discovery Miles 16 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Participatory Research and Planning in Practice (Hardcover): David Bole, Janez Nared Participatory Research and Planning in Practice (Hardcover)
David Bole, Janez Nared
R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Handbook of Research on Methods and Tools for Assessing Cultural Landscape Adaptation (Hardcover): Isabel de Sousa Rosa, Joana... Handbook of Research on Methods and Tools for Assessing Cultural Landscape Adaptation (Hardcover)
Isabel de Sousa Rosa, Joana Corte Lopes, Ricardo Ribeiro, Ana Mendes
R7,202 Discovery Miles 72 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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