The Captive S Position

Author : Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803295780

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Captives by Catherine M. Cameron Pdf

In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare and raiding have had on small- scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new point of orientation for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and other scholars by illuminating the impact that captive-taking and enslavement have had on cultural change, with important implications for understanding the past. Focusing primarily on indigenous societies in the Americas while extending the comparative reach to include Europe, Africa, and Island Southeast Asia, Cameron draws on ethnographic, ethnohistoric, historic, and archaeological data to examine the roles that captives played in small-scale societies. In such societies, captives represented an almost universal social category consisting predominantly of women and children and constituting 10 to 50 percent of the population in a given society. Cameron demonstrates how captives brought with them new technologies, design styles, foodways, religious practices, and more, all of which changed the captor culture. This book provides a framework that will enable archaeologists to understand the scale and nature of cultural transmission by captives and it will also interest anthropologists, historians, and other scholars who study captive-taking and slavery. Cameron’s exploration of the peculiar amnesia that surrounds memories of captive-taking and enslavement around the world also establishes a connection with unmistakable contemporary relevance.

Author : Teresa A. Toulouse
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203677

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The Captive's Position by Teresa A. Toulouse Pdf

Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative—one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the seventeenth century. While North American narratives of Indian captivity had been written before this period by French priests and other European adventurers, those stories had focused largely on Catholic conversions and martyrdoms or male strategies for survival among the Indians. In contrast, the New England texts represented a colonial Protestant woman who was separated brutally from her family but who demonstrated qualities of religious acceptance, humility, and obedience until she was eventually returned to her own community. Toulouse explores how the female captive's position came to resonate so powerfully for traditional male elites in the second and third generation of the Massachusetts colony. Threatened by ongoing wars with Indians and French as well as by a range of royal English interventions in New England political and cultural life, figures such as Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and John Williams perceived themselves to be equally challenged by religious and social conflicts within New England. By responding to and employing popular representations of female captivity, they were enabled to express their ambivalence toward the world of their fathers and toward imperial expansion and thereby to negotiate their own complicated sense of personal and cultural identity. Examining the captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, Hannah Swarton, and John Williams (who comes to stand in for the female captive), Toulouse asserts the need to read these gendered texts as cultural products that variably engage, shape, and confound colonial attitudes toward both Europe and the local scene in Massachusetts. In doing so, The Captive's Position offers a new story of the rise and breakdown of orthodox Puritan captivities and a meditation on the relationship between dreams of authority and historical change.

Author : Daniel Hershenzon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295368

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The Captive Sea by Daniel Hershenzon Pdf

In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a political economy of ransom and communication networks shaped by Spanish, Ottoman, and Moroccan rulers; ecclesiastic institutions; Jewish, Muslim, and Christian intermediaries; and the captives themselves, as well as their kin. Hershenzon offers both a comprehensive analysis of competing projects for maritime dominance and a granular investigation of how individual lives were tragically upended by these agendas. He takes a close look at the tightly connected and ultimately failed attempts to ransom an Algerian Muslim girl sold into slavery in Livorno in 1608; the son of a Spanish marquis enslaved by pirates in Algiers and brought to Istanbul, where he converted to Islam; three Spanish Trinitarian friars detained in Algiers on the brink of their departure for Spain in the company of Christians they had redeemed; and a high-ranking Ottoman official from Alexandria, captured in 1613 by the Sicilian squadron of Spain. Examining the circulation of bodies, currency, and information in the contested Mediterranean, Hershenzon concludes that the practice of ransoming captives, a procedure meant to separate Christians from Muslims, had the unintended consequence of tightly binding Iberia to the Maghrib.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458719300

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Captives & Cousins (Volume 2 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jarbel Rodriguez
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813214757

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Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by Jarbel Rodriguez Pdf

Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon argues that by this time the ransoming efforts were on a kingdom-wide scale engaging not only professional ransomers, merchants, and officials of the crown but the population at large.

Author : James F. Brooks
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458718617

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Captives and Cousins by James F. Brooks Pdf

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a ''slave system'' in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare. Always attentive to the corrosive effects of the ''slave trade'' on Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and ''communities of interest'' among groups often antagonistic to Spanish, Mexican, and American modernizing strategies. The extension of the moral and military campaigns of the American Civil War to the Southwest in a regional ''war against slavery'' brought differing forms of social stability but cost local communities much of their economic vitality and cultural flexibility.

Author : Roger Pickenpaugh
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817316525

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Captives in Gray by Roger Pickenpaugh Pdf

Contains contemporary reports from prisoners and witnesses humanize the grim realities of the POW camps Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prisoner of war camp mismanagement, brutality, and incompetence. It is only recently that historians have turned their attention to this contentious topic in an attempt to sort the wheat of truth from the chaff of partisan rancor. Roger Pickenpaugh has previously studied a Union prison camp in careful detail (Camp Chase) and now turns his attention to the Union record in its entirety, to investigate variations between camps and overall prison policy and to determine as nearly as possible what actually happened in the admittedly over-crowded, under-supplied, and poorly-administered camps. He also attempts to determine what conditions resulted from conscious government policy or were the product of local officials and situations. A companion to Pickenpaugh's Captives in Blue.

Author : Klaus Gerathewohl
Publisher : VVW GmbH
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783862982479

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Reinsurance - Principles and Practice by Klaus Gerathewohl Pdf

The reference work for reinsurance

Author : Tracy Stecker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781616492656

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5 Survivors by Tracy Stecker Pdf

First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction—and their loved ones. First-person accounts by five PTSD survivors bring hope to the millions suffering from but not yet diagnosed with this affliction--and their loved ones. Each year millions of people are afflicted by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Most struggle to simply make it through the day as sights, sounds, and smells bring their life's most harrowing experience front and center, to be relived again and again. And many are unaware of the root problem of these symptoms or are unwilling to admit one exists.Through moving firsthand accounts 5 Survivors sheds an intimate light on the impact of PTSD on three veterans of war, a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, and a victim of childhood sexual abuse. With courage and honesty, they tell their stories of trauma, revealing the struggles they faced later in life, and how they eventually worked toward positive change and healing.With the guidance of PTSD expert and researcher Tracy Stecker, Ph.D. who outlines the symptoms and progress of each survivor, those living untreated with PTSD may see themselves in these stories, realize they are not alone, and take action to get help. Friends and family of those who have been greatly impacted by trauma will gain a more intimate understanding of a loved one's struggle and pain.About the author Tracy Stecker, Ph.D., is a psychologist at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. She developed a curriculum titled Using a Brief Intervention to Motivate Clients to Get Help in collaboration with Hazelden. Her focus is on treating veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan returning with PTSD and/or substance abuse issues. Several of these projects have been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.

Author : Warren R. Perry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306459559

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Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact by Warren R. Perry Pdf

In 1984, Perry went to Swaziland, in southern Africa, to do archaeological fieldwork on the emergence of the Swazi state. He concentrated on the unsanctioned realms of the recent history, the Mfecane/Difaqane period, and soon discovered that no archaeology had been undertaken and that the official r.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Tanks (Military science)
ISBN : UVA:X004830298

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Organizational Maintenance Manual by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Development banks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029333015

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Maritime redevelopment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine Pdf

Author : Gresham M. Sykes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691130647

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The Society of Captives by Gresham M. Sykes Pdf

'The Society of Captives' is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. This new edition features a new introduction by Bruce Western and a new epilogue by the author. It will continue to serve as an indispensable text for coming to terms with the nature of modern power.

Author : Daniel Krebs,Lorien Foote
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700630516

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Useful Captives by Daniel Krebs,Lorien Foote Pdf

Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare. In Useful Captives volume editors Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote and their contributors explore the wide range of roles that captives play in times of conflict: hostages used to negotiate vital points of contention between combatants, consumers, laborers, propaganda tools, objects of indoctrination, proof of military success, symbols, political instruments, exemplars of manhood ideals, loyal and disloyal soldiers, and agents of change in society. The book’s eleven chapters cover conflicts involving Americans, ranging from colonial warfare on the Creek-Georgia border in the late eighteenth century, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great War, World War II, to twenty-first century U.S. drone warfare. This long historical horizon enables the reader to go beyond the prison camp experience of POWs to better understand the many ways they influence the nature and course of military conflict. Useful Captives shows the vital role that prisoners of war play in American warfare and reveals the cultural contexts of warfare, the shaping and altering of military policies, the process of state-building, the impacts upon the economy and environment of the conflict zone, their special place in propaganda and political symbolism, and the importance of public history in shaping national memory.

Author : Fabrice Cavoto
Publisher : Lincom
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015055809753

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The Linguist's Linguist by Fabrice Cavoto Pdf