Power and Pawn

Power and Pawn PDF Author: Ann Pescatello
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Analysis of the role of Iberian women in Europe, Asia, Africa and America as well as those indigenous cultures influenced by Iberians (the people of present-day Spain and Portugal).

Power and Pawn

Power and Pawn PDF Author: Ann Pescatello
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
Analysis of the role of Iberian women in Europe, Asia, Africa and America as well as those indigenous cultures influenced by Iberians (the people of present-day Spain and Portugal).

The Deepest South

The Deepest South PDF Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814790739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which today has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself. Proslavery Americans began to accelerate their presence in Brazil in the 1830s, creating alliances there—sometimes friendly, often contentious—with Portuguese, Spanish, British, and other foreign slave traders to buy, sell, and transport African slaves, particularly from the eastern shores of that beleaguered continent. Spokesmen of the Slave South drew up ambitious plans to seize the Amazon and develop this region by deporting the enslaved African-Americans there to toil. When the South seceded from the Union, it received significant support from Brazil, which correctly assumed that a Confederate defeat would be a mortal blow to slavery south of the border. After the Civil War, many Confederates, with slaves in tow, sought refuge as well as the survival of their peculiar institution in Brazil. Based on extensive research from archives on five continents, Gerald Horne breaks startling new ground in the history of slavery, uncovering its global dimensions and the degrees to which its defenders went to maintain it.

Abolitionism

Abolitionism PDF Author: Joaquim Nabuco
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The Culture of Entrepreneurship

The Culture of Entrepreneurship PDF Author: Brigitte Berger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Feminist Legal History

Feminist Legal History PDF Author: Tracy A. Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814784266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history is driven by a commitment to uncover women's legal agency and how women, both historically and currently, use law to obtain individual and societal empowerment. Feminist Legal History represents feminist legal historians' efforts to define their field, by showcasing historical research and analysis that demonstrates how women were denied legal rights, how women used the law proactively to gain rights, and how, empowered by law, women worked to alter the law to try to change gendered realities. Encompassing two centuries of American history, thirteen original essays expose the many ways in which legal decisions have hinged upon ideas about women or gender as well as the ways women themselves have intervened in the law, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's notion of a legal class of gender to the deeply embedded inequities involved in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, a 2007 Supreme Court pay discrimination case. Contributors: Carrie N. Baker, Felice Batlan, Tracey Jean Boisseau, Eileen Boris, Richard H. Chused, Lynda Dodd, Jill Hasday, Gwen Hoerr Jordan, Maya Manian, Melissa Murray, Mae C. Quinn, Margo Schlanger, Reva Siegel, Tracy A. Thomas, and Leti Volpp

Lives in Between

Lives in Between PDF Author: Leo Spitzer
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521378277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Women's Law

Women's Law PDF Author: Tove Stang Dahl
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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At the University of Oslo the subject of women's law was recognized as an autonomous legal discipline since 1974. In this introduction a description is given of the subjects the institute is working on (discrimination and equality, sources and methods, women's right to money, housewives' law)

Portugal and Africa

Portugal and Africa PDF Author: D. Birmingham
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349274909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it revived in the twentieth century on a tide of white migration. Settlers, however, brought racial conflict as well as economic modernisation and the Portuguese colonies went through spasms of violence which resembled those of Algeria and South Africa. Liberation eventually came but the peoples of the old colonial cities clung tightly to their acquired traditions, eating Portuguese dishes, writing Portuguese poetry and studying in Portuguese universities.

Indo-Portuguese History

Indo-Portuguese History PDF Author: Teotonio R. De Souza
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Conference. Indo Portuguese history
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire PDF Author: Philip J. Havik
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443884634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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In 2004, a conference was held at King’s College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed ‘Portuguese’ societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer’s own interest in the social history of Portugal’s overseas empire. Although the conference papers were published by Bristol University, this volume is long out of print and the outstanding quality of many of the contributions has made it necessary for this collection to be republished. Portuguese overseas expansion over a period of five centuries led to the formation of many mixed or creole communities which drew culturally not only on Portugal, but also on indigenous societies. This cross-cultural interaction gave rise to a creole ‘Portuguese’ identity that in many cases outlasted the formal empire itself. Reflecting upon the main tenets of Boxer’s work, this collection provides a broad geographical perspective upon areas of Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa. The chapters cover a wide range of social strata, including plantation slave and maroon communities, private settler-traders and pirates, indigenous trade-diasporas, and Luso-African, Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian groups, as well as the formation of Creole elites against the background of shifting racial, gender, ethnic, linguistic and religious boundaries. As such, this collection represents an exercise in ‘subaltern’ history which shows that the informal social relations were often more important in the long term than the formal structures of empire.