Author: W. Alleyne Ireland
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Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Demerariana: Essays Historical, Critical and Descriptive
Author: W. Alleyne Ireland
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Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The New American Comprehensive Encyclopedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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The American Literary Yearbook
Author: Hamilton Paul Traub
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Bechu
Author: Clem Seecharan
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ISBN: 9789766400712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Clem Seecharan has written a useful documentary history of Bechu, the first Indian to testify before the Royal Commission in 1897. Now who was this Bechu? He was, in Seecharan's words, "an indefatigable gadfly," who in letters to the local press revealed the conditions of Indian indentureship: poor wages, sexual exploitation of women by overseers and managers, and the virtual impossibility for Indians to obtain justice because of the collusion between colonial authorities and the planters. This knowledge we owe to economic historian Alan Adamson who "discovered" Bechu in the 1960s. Yet the man himself remained somewhat of a mystery, something Bechu himself seems to have cultivated. Seecharan has now filled a number of lacunae in our understanding with this two-part volume. The first section focuses on Bechu and the British Guianese environment in the late nineteenth century, while the second part includes letters and memoranda by Bechu (and reactions to them by local opponents).
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ISBN: 9789766400712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Clem Seecharan has written a useful documentary history of Bechu, the first Indian to testify before the Royal Commission in 1897. Now who was this Bechu? He was, in Seecharan's words, "an indefatigable gadfly," who in letters to the local press revealed the conditions of Indian indentureship: poor wages, sexual exploitation of women by overseers and managers, and the virtual impossibility for Indians to obtain justice because of the collusion between colonial authorities and the planters. This knowledge we owe to economic historian Alan Adamson who "discovered" Bechu in the 1960s. Yet the man himself remained somewhat of a mystery, something Bechu himself seems to have cultivated. Seecharan has now filled a number of lacunae in our understanding with this two-part volume. The first section focuses on Bechu and the British Guianese environment in the late nineteenth century, while the second part includes letters and memoranda by Bechu (and reactions to them by local opponents).
Colonial Civil Service
Author: Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 6
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349737763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography that is comprehensive of the entire series.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349737763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography that is comprehensive of the entire series.
The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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A review and record of current literature.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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A review and record of current literature.
Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world. The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world. The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.
The Sugar Cane
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Category : Sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Category : Sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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