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Verlag: University Of California Press Feb 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0520269969ISBN 13: 9780520269965
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book offers something truly new and profound about the Black Atlantic: a glimpse of the presence of African foods, plants, and bodies of everyday knowledge that define Africa's subtle but persistent presence in the Atlantic World and beyond. Food, survival, and human ingenuity. Great stuff.'--James C. McCann, author of Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop'Today, many people are thinking differently, and more deeply, about food, slavery, and globalization. No one can connect these diverse topics more effectively than Judith Carney. Building on her pioneering study, Black Rice, Carney's absorbing new book--coauthored with Richard Nicholas Rosomoff--is original, wide-ranging, and provocative. Like a bountiful African gourd vine, this remarkable overview spreads in many directions and bears impressive fruit.'--Peter H. Wood, author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America'In this highly original study, Judith Carney deliberately bypasses the huge (and hugely cruel) investment of slave labor power in the direct production of planter wealth. She offers in its place the less familiar chronicle of slave subsistence, and uncovers the essential role that African agricultural history had played in establishing and sustaining it. In the Shadow of Slavery goes back to Mother Africa, to shed new light on the Old World's part in the building of the New.'--Sidney W. Mintz, author of Sweetness & Power and Three Ancient Colonies (forthcoming)'Judith Carney has written a brilliant green history of the Black Atlantic, illuminating in creative, path-blazing ways the globalization of the magnificent African commons.'--Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History'In the Shadow of Slavery unveils an epic saga of global foodways involving African peoples and their African-American descendants. The authors brilliantly craft the historical and geographic story of the stuggle to ensure the survival of their cultural-natural heritage, and the evolution of that heritage in the trans-Atlantic agrarian landscapes.'--Karl S. Zimmerer, editor of Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation'A fresh look at the African diaspora's far-reaching consequences by examining its effects on subsistence foods on both sides of the Atlantic. Carney provides a new understanding of the contributions that enslaved Africans made to American culture. An outstanding work.'--Gail E. Wagner, University of South Carolina'Following on the heels of her magnificent book Black Rice, Judith Carney delves deeper into the invisible history of the Black Atlantic's foodways. She provides nothing less than a radical re-reading of the role of Africans in shaping not simply New World agrarian systems but the ways in which food was processed, how animals were reared, husbanded and tended, and how African knowledge and practice contributed to the global table. In the Shadow of Slavery is a remarkable narrative achievement, a rich account of endurance, innovation, survival, travel and historical memory nourished not so much on the estates and plantations as on the slave plots, and in the hearths and kitchens of those who survived the Middle Passage. A tour de force.'--Michael Watts, editor of Curse Of The Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta'In this brilliant book, Judith Carney charts the diaspora of African flora that resulted largely as an unintended consequence of the forced migration of Africans from the Old World to the New. European slave ships unwittingly carried Africa's botanical heritage along with the people who valued it to the Americas. Africans cultivated foods crucial to their very survival in what Carney beautifully styles 'botanical gardens of the dispossessed'. A must-read for anyone interested in the circulation of plants, peoples, and competing knowledges in the Atlantic World.'--Londa Schiebinger, author of Plants and Empire: Colonial Biopropsecting in the Atlantic World.
Verlag: University Of California Press Feb 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0520260007ISBN 13: 9780520260009
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny-and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture-are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor.
Verlag: University Of California Press Feb 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0520268148ISBN 13: 9780520268142
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Weinfield's versions are superb--true miracles, I believe--and give us the flavor of Mallarmé's work for the first time.'--Paul Auster, Editor, The Random House Book of 20th-Century French Poetry.
Verlag: University Of California Press Feb 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0520253663ISBN 13: 9780520253667
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Economy of the Greek Cities' offers readers a clear and concise overview of ancient Greek economies from the archaic to the Roman period. Leopold Migeotte approaches Greek economic activities from the perspective of the ancient sources, situating them within the context of the city-state '(polis).' He illuminates the ways citizens intervened in the economy and considers such important sectors as agriculture, craft industries, public works, and trade. Focusing on how the private and public spheres impinged on each other, this book provides a broad understanding of the political and economic changes affecting life in the Greek city-states over a thousand-year period.
Verlag: University Of California Press Feb 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0520049551ISBN 13: 9780520049550
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. It explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism.