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Author : Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108477659
A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.
Author : Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108477659
A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.
Author : JoAnna Poblete
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252096471
In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans could seek jobs in the United States and its territories despite the anti-immigration policies in place at the time. JoAnna Poblete's Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i takes an in-depth look at how the two groups fared in a third new colony, Hawai'i. Using plantation documents, missionary records, government documents, and oral histories, Poblete analyzes how the workers interacted with Hawaiian government structures and businesses, how U.S. policies for colonial workers differed from those for citizens or foreigners, and how policies aided corporate and imperial interests. A rare tandem study of two groups at work on foreign soil, Islanders in the Empire offers a new perspective on American imperialism and labor issues of the era.
Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Europe
ISBN : 030018056X
Traces the history and experiences of the Pacific Islanders during the age of empires, describing encounters between the Islanders and Europeans and discussing the region's culture and development.
Author : Peter J. Hempenstall
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781921934322
This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.
Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521848369
A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.
Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293395
There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.
Author : Matthew Restall,Kris Lane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108416405
This second edition is a concise history of Latin America from the Aztecs and Incas to Independence.
Author : Robert Thomas Tierney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520947665
Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over the course of Japan's colonial period--violent headhunter to be subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.
Author : Nicholas Hirshon,Éric Fichaud
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496212559
The NHL's New York Islanders were struggling. After winning four straight Stanley Cups in the early 1980s, the Islanders had suffered an embarrassing sweep by their geographic rivals, the New York Rangers, in the first round of the 1994 playoffs. Hoping for a new start, the Islanders swapped out their distinctive logo, which featured the letters NY and a map of Long Island, for a cartoon fisherman wearing a rain slicker and gripping a hockey stick. The new logo immediately drew comparisons to the mascot for Gorton's frozen seafood, and opposing fans taunted the team with chants of "We want fish sticks!" During a rebranding process that lasted three torturous seasons, the Islanders unveiled a new mascot, new uniforms, new players, a new coach, and a new owner that were supposed to signal a return to championship glory. Instead, the team and its fans endured a twenty-eight-month span more humiliating than what most franchises witness over twenty-eight years. The Islanders thought they had traded for a star player to inaugurate the fisherman era, but he initially refused to report and sulked until the general manager banished him. Fans beat up the new mascot in the stands. The new coach shoved and spit at players. The Islanders were sold to a supposed billionaire who promised to buy elite players; he turned out to be a con artist and was sent to prison. We Want Fish Sticks examines this era through period sources and interviews with the people who lived it.
Author : Michael Craton,Gail Saunders
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820342733
From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. Islanders in the Stream is not only the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it is also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in similar circumstances. Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Covering the islands’ initial settlement, the second section ranges from the initial European incursions and the first English settlements through the lawless era of pirate misrule to Britain’s official takeover and development of the colony in the eighteenth century. The third, and largest, section offers a full analysis of Bahamian slave society through the great influx of Empire Loyalists and their slaves at the end of the American Revolution to the purported achievement of full freedom for the slaves in 1838. This work is both a pioneering social history and a richly illustrated narrative modifying previous Eurocentric interpretations of the islands’ early history. Written to appeal to Bahamians as well as all those interested in Caribbean history, Islanders in the Stream looks at the islands and their people in their fullest contexts, constituting not just the most thorough view of Bahamian history to date but a major contribution to Caribbean historiography.
Author : Barbara L. Solow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521457378
Placing slavery in the mainstream of modern history, the essays in this survey describe its transfer from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the Atlantic economies, and its impact on Africa.
Author : Tracey Banivanua Mar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037595
This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.
Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226038360
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
Author : Nikolaj Leskov
Publisher : Book on Demand Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9785424124501
Nikolaj Semenovich Leskov shiroko, ob'ektivno otrazil v svoih proizvedeniyah zhizn' rossijskogo obschestva ego epohi - epohi otmeny krepostnogo prava, probuzhdeniya delovoj aktivnosti mass, razmezhevaniya intelligentsii na raznye ideologicheskie "stany." Bol'shoe vnimanie udelyal Leskov i russkoj starine, schitaya tsennym dlya razvitiya obschestva nakoplennyj tysyacheletiyami narodnyj opyt. Dokumental'nost' mnogih ego proizvedenij sochetaetsya s hudozhestvennoj vyrazitel'nost'yu, psihologicheskoj glubinoj, yarkost'yu yazyka.