Author: Thomas Shaw
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Thomas Shaw
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Thomas Shaw
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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'Highly regarded by Edward Gibbon, Thomas Shaw, who travelled in North Africa, Egypt, the Sinai desert, Palestine and Syria in the 1720s, can in many respects be considered the precursor of later and enlightened writers on the Arab world such as the Russell brothers and Burckhardt. His aim to provide a "natural history", especially of Algeria, where he was appointed chaplain to the factory of English merchants in 1720 and where he spent thirteen years, the valuable information - botanical, zoological and topographical - which his travels contain, his habit of giving a number of toponyms in Arabic characters, the care he took to copy Roman inscriptions in North Africa and hieroglyphics in Egypt, and, finally, the exceptionally good plates and maps in his work, all entitled Shaw to a place among the most observant and reliable visitors to the east. Educated at Oxford, and, after his return to England, appointed Regius Professor of Greek at the university, Shaw also had a superior cultural background which emerges from the classical texts reproduced in the appendices. Yet not only was Shaw more interested in classical antiquity than contemporary Arab society, but he was far less sympathetic to the Arabs than many of his successors. Resenting "the jealous and insolent Behaviour of the Arabs, when they are Masters", he clearly preferred areas where they were as firmly dominated as possible by the Turks, and he certainly preferred North Africa (and above all Tunisia) to the Near East. Like Thévenot, however, he saw in most of the places he visited "a large Scene of Ruin and Desolation", despotism and ignorance'.'First published in 1738, the Travels bear a dedication to King George II with a reference to the generous patronage of Queen Caroline ... Like Thomas Fuller, Shaw dedicated each plate in his book to a different friend or patron. Later, it was translated into German, Dutch and French, and was studied with interest by the ideologists of the French invasion of Algeria' (Alastair Hamilton, Europe and the Arab World p. 120).

Author: Jan Loop
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004429328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Scholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work and legacy. They discuss and celebrate intellectual, artistic and religious encounters between Europe and the cultural area stretching from Northern Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, and spanning the period from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Contributors: Asaph Ben-Tov, Alexander Bevilacqua, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Charles Burnett, Ziad Elmarsafy, Mordechai Feingold, Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, Robert Irwin, Tarif Khalidi, J.M.I. Klaver, Noel Malcolm, Martin Mulsow, Francis Richard, G. J. Toomer, Arnoud Vrolijk, Nicholas Warner, Joanna Weinberg, and Jan Just Witkam.

Author: Thomas Shaw
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Languages : en
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Author: Tim Fulford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000559890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.

Author: Jeffrey Brace
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299201430
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (né Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times.

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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: John Ramsay McCulloch
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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