Author: Brian L. Moore
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed.
Neither Led Nor Driven
Author: Brian L. Moore
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed.
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed.
Insanity, Race and Colonialism
Author: L. Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137318058
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137318058
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.
The Silver Women
Author: Joan Flores-Villalobos
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512823643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts, had little access to official services and wages, and received pay in both silver and gold. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The Silver Women is thus a history of Black women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512823643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts, had little access to official services and wages, and received pay in both silver and gold. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The Silver Women is thus a history of Black women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
The Ogilvies
Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368655000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368655000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Nation and Athenæum
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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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The Nation
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Irish Memories
Author: Edith Œnone Somerville
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Irish Memories
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
Author: Diana Paton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
Irish Memories
Author: Martin Ross
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"Irish Memories" is a compilation of excerpts and descriptions of Irish life during the early 1900s. Written by Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin but published under the name Martin Ross, these two women managed to create a literary text that immerses its readers in the rich and magical culture of Ireland. Recounting the life and times of citizens during the ups and downs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern readers will find themselves engrossed and unable to put the book down until it's finished.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"Irish Memories" is a compilation of excerpts and descriptions of Irish life during the early 1900s. Written by Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin but published under the name Martin Ross, these two women managed to create a literary text that immerses its readers in the rich and magical culture of Ireland. Recounting the life and times of citizens during the ups and downs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern readers will find themselves engrossed and unable to put the book down until it's finished.