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Book Voyage    la partie orientale de la Terre Ferme  dans l Am  rique m  ridionale

Download or read book Voyage la partie orientale de la Terre Ferme dans l Am rique m ridionale written by François R. de Pons and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infelicities

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  • Author : Peter Mason
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780801858802
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Infelicities written by Peter Mason and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to convey the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe. In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting.

Book Cannibal Encounters

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  • Author : Philip P. Boucher
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2009-05-25
  • ISBN : 1421401649
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Cannibal Encounters written by Philip P. Boucher and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and analysis of European colonizers’ relationship with and literary depiction of the aborigines of the Lesser Antilles. Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers’ observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations. Winner of the French Colonial Historical Society’s Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize “A strong contribution to our understanding of the interplay not only between France and Britain in the struggle for the Antilles but also between the colonizers and the indigenous people fighting to maintain their independence from both European powers.” —American Historical Review “Welcome evidence that historians are willing to rewrite the history of the colonial era in the Caribbean with a clearer eye to the part the indigenous population played.” —Peter Hulme, William and Mary Quarterly “Boucher’s research is thorough and his contribution to the historiography of the Caribbean and of colonialism is valuable.” —Ethan Casey, Magill Book Reviews “An intelligent, well-informed discussion of French and English contacts with Island Caribs in the West Indies from the pre-colonial era until the end of the Seven Years War.” —Kenneth Morgan, English Historical Review “A new and important contribution to the efforts of historians and anthropologists to understand the history of the Caribs.” —Jalil Sued-Badillo, Journal of American History “A lucid and terse examination of direct interactions between Island Caribs and Europeans in the Lesser Antilles, and the indirect influence of literary images of Island Caribs (and other Native Americans) on the emergence of Western philosophical traditions.” —William F. Keegan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History “No one has mined the French National Archives to this extent on this topic. Boucher renders valuable information accessible to English readers.” —Robert A. Myers, Alfred University

Book Author List

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  • Author : Philip Lee Phillips
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Author List written by Philip Lee Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Main Currents in Caribbean Thought

Download or read book Main Currents in Caribbean Thought written by Gordon K. Lewis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that noted scholar Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought. Since its original publication in 1983, Main Currents in Caribbean Thought has remained one of the most ambitious works to date by a leader in modern Caribbean scholarship. By looking into the “Caribbean mind,” Lewis shows how European, African, and Asian ideas became creolized and Americanized, creating an entirely new ideology that continues to shape Caribbean thought and society today.

Book The Colonial Machine

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  • Author : James Edward McClellan (III)
  • Publisher : Brepols Publishers
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9782503532608
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Colonial Machine written by James Edward McClellan (III) and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III and Francois Regourd explore these two world-historical forces and their interactions in this comprehensive and in-depth history of the French case in the Old Regime presented here for the first time. The case is key because no other state matched Old-Regime France as a center for organized science and because contemporary France closely rivaled Britain as a colonial power, as well as leading all other nations in commodity production and participating in the slave trade. Based on extensive archival research and vast primary and secondary literatures and sharply reframing the historiography of the field, this landmark volume traces the development and significance for early-modern history of the Colonial Machine of Old-Regime France, an unparalleled agglomeration of institutions geared to the success of the French colonial enterprise, including the Royal Navy, the Academie Royale des Sciences, the Jardin du Roi, and a host of related specialist institutions working together at home and overseas. Mainly supported by the French state, the Colonial Machine reveals itself through its actions from the time of Colbert and Louis XIV as it grappled with fundamental problems facing contemporary European colonialism: cartography and navigation; medical care of sailors, colonists, and slaves; and applied botany and commodity production. Historians of globalization and European overseas expansion, of Old-Regime France, and of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will henceforth take this stimulating volume as a necessary starting point for further reflection and research. Nominated for the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize.

Book Studies in Caucasian History

Download or read book Studies in Caucasian History written by V. Minorsky and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1953 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Carter Brown Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economics of Mineral Engineering

Download or read book Economics of Mineral Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Les Indiens des petites Antilles

Download or read book Les Indiens des petites Antilles written by Bernard Grunberg and published by Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Amérique Coloniale. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C'est à la recherche des Indiens caraïbes qu'est dédié ce livre, depuis les migrations précolombiennes jusqu'à la colonisation française du XVIIe siècle. Si les chroniqueurs dépeignent pour la plupart un monde quasi immobile, les historiens savent au contraire qu'il a subit de nombreuses mutations.

Book The Skull  and the Cranial and First Spinal Muscles and Nerves in Scomber

Download or read book The Skull and the Cranial and First Spinal Muscles and Nerves in Scomber written by Edward Phelps Allis and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Island of Dominica

Download or read book The History of the Island of Dominica written by Thomas Atwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1971. For the purpose of bringing forth to view these capabilities of Dominica, the following history of that island is submitted to this title. The author's chief inducement for writing this book was his hope, that it might be some small means of service to a country, in which he has spent several years of his life, and the prosperity of which, it is his ardent wish to see speedily promoted. It falls not within the compass of this work to enter into details of acts of the legislature, the conduit of governors, or of individuals of that island.

Book The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice

Download or read book The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice written by William Goodell and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Morphology of Coeloplana

Download or read book The Morphology of Coeloplana written by James Francis Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Literature in the Caribbean  Cross cultural studies

Download or read book A History of Literature in the Caribbean Cross cultural studies written by Albert James Arnold and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-Cultural Studies is the culminating effort of a distinguished team of international scholars who have worked since the mid-1980s to create the most complete analysis of Caribbean literature ever undertaken. Conceived as a major contribution to postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, and regional studies of the Caribbean and the Americas, Cross-Cultural Studies illuminates the interrelations between and among Europe, the Caribbean islands, Africa, and the American continents from the late fifteenth century to the present. Scholars from five continents bring to bear on the most salient issues of Caribbean literature theoretical and critical positions that are currently in the forefront of discussion in literature, the arts, and public policy. Among the major issues treated at length in Cross-Cultural Studies are: The history and construction of racial inequality in Caribbean colonization; The origins and formation of literatures in various Creoles; The gendered literary representation of the Caribbean region; The political and ideological appropriation of Caribbean history in creating the idea of national culture in North and South America, Europe, and Africa; The role of the Caribbean in contemporary theories of Modernism and the Postmodern; The decentering of such canonical authors as Shakespeare; The vexed but inevitable connectedness of Caribbean literature with both its former colonial metropoles and its geographical neighbors. Contributions to Cross-Cultural Studies give a concrete cultural and historical analysis of such contemporary critical terms as hybridity, transculturation, and the carnivalesque, which have so often been taken out of context and employed in narrowly ideological contexts. Two important theories of the simultaneous unity and diversity of Caribbean literature and culture, propounded by Antonio Benítez-Rojo and +douard Glissant, receive extended treatment that places them strategically in the debate over multiculturalism in postcolonial societies and in the context of chaos theory. A contribution by Benítez-Rojo permits the reader to test the theory through his critical practice. Divided into nine thematic and methodological sections followed by a complete index to the names and dates of authors and significant historical figures discussed, Cross-Cultural Studies will be an indispensable resource for every library and a necessary handbook for scholars, teachers, and advanced students of the Caribbean region.

Book American Scenery  Or  Land  Lake  and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature

Download or read book American Scenery Or Land Lake and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature written by Nathaniel Parker Willis and published by London ; New York : J.S. Virtue, [184-?]. This book was released on 1840 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: