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A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about
European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed
balance to our understanding of the past. Was America really
"stolen" from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians
really peace-loving, communistic environmentalists? Did Europeans
commit "genocide" in the New World? It seems that almost
everyone--from CNN to the New York Times to angry students pulling
down statues of our founders--believes that America's history is a
shameful tale of racism, exploitation, and cruelty. In Not Stolen,
renowned historian Jeff Fynn-Paul systematically dismantles this
relentlessly negative view of U.S. history, arguing that it is
based on shoddy methods, misinformation, and outright lies about
the past. America was not "stolen" from the Indians but fairly
purchased piece by piece in a thriving land market. Nor did
European settlers cheat, steal, murder, rape or purposely infect
them with smallpox to the extent that most people believe. No
genocide occurred--either literal or cultural--and the decline of
Native populations over time is not due to violence but to
assimilation and natural demographic processes. Fynn Paul not only
debunks these toxic myths, but provides a balanced portrait of this
complex historical process over 500 years. The real history of
Native and European relations will surprise you. Not only is this
not a tale of shameful sins and crimes against humanity--it is more
inspiring than you ever dared to imagine.
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational
life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail.
The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent
families-one knightly and one mercantile-with a detailed
cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town
in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa
in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study
possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the
fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family
notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible
by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details
the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually
thorough degree. In these pages, the economic and social strategies
of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to
light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and
its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many
social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography
of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups
as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women
householders, and the poor.
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational
life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail.
The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent
families-one knightly and one mercantile-with a detailed
cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town
in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa
in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study
possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the
fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family
notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible
by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details
the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually
thorough degree. In these pages, the economic and social strategies
of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to
light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and
its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many
social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography
of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups
as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women
householders, and the poor.
Listen to podcast on "Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and
Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case". In Slaving
Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the
Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors-including both
world-leading and emerging historians of slavery-engage with the
'Slaving Zones' theory. This theory has recently taken the field of
Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by
the editors was to see if the 'Slaving Zones' theory could be
applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The
results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff
Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors
have added to the concept of 'Slaving Zones', helping to make it
one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent
of Orlando Patterson's Slavery and Social Death.
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first
long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late
medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff
Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European
narratives to place the city's social, political and economic
development within the broader context of late medieval urban
decline. Drawing from extensive archival research, including legal
and administrative records, royal letters, and a cadastral survey
of more than 640 households entitled the 1408 Liber Manifesti, the
author surveys the economic strategies of both elites and
non-elites to a level previously unknown for any medieval town
outside of Tuscany and Ghent. In a major contribution to the
series, The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie reveals how
a combination of the Black Death, royal policy, and a new public
debt system challenged, and finally undermined urban resilience in
Catalonia.
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first
long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late
medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff
Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European
narratives to place the city's social, political and economic
development within the broader context of late medieval urban
decline. Drawing from extensive archival research, including legal
and administrative records, royal letters, and a cadastral survey
of more than 640 households entitled the 1408 Liber Manifesti, the
author surveys the economic strategies of both elites and
non-elites to a level previously unknown for any medieval town
outside of Tuscany and Ghent. In a major contribution to the
series, The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie reveals how
a combination of the Black Death, royal policy, and a new public
debt system challenged, and finally undermined urban resilience in
Catalonia.
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