1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965310803321

Titolo

The Global South Atlantic / / Kerry Bystrom, Joseph R. Slaughter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9780823277902

0823277909

9780823280490

0823280497

9780823277896

0823277895

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlencastroLuis Felipe

Armillas-TiseyraMagalí

BystromKerry

CivantosChristina

FrydmanJason

HannekenJaime

HassanWaïl

HemerOscar

HofmeyrIsabel

HornMaja

MadureiraLuis

MahlerAnne-Garland

MillarLanie

Disciplina

916.3/5

975

Soggetti

Geopolitics - South Atlantic Ocean

South Atlantic Ocean Region History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- contents -- introduction. The Sea of International



Politics -- The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic -- A World Girded -- Scheherazade in Chains -- Southern by Degrees -- Beyond the Color Curtain -- South Africa, Chile, and the Cold War -- Islands in Distress -- Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic -- Marvelous Autocrats -- Postwar Politics in O Herói and Kangamba -- Adrift Between Neoliberalism and the Revolution -- A Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror -- Carioca Orientalism -- acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- contributors -- index

Sommario/riassunto

Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies, and even the growing interest in South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a site that captures the attention it deserves. The Global South Atlantic traces literary exchanges and interlaced networks of communication and investment—financial, political, socio-cultural, libidinal—across and around the southern ocean. Bringing together scholars working in a range of languages, from Spanish to Arabic, the book shows the range of ways people, governments, political movements, social imaginaries, cultural artefacts, goods, and markets cross the South Atlantic, or sometimes fail to cross. As a region made up of multiple intersecting regions, and as a vision made up of complementary and competing visions, the South Atlantic can only be understood comparatively. Exploring the Atlantic as an effect of structures of power and knowledge that issue from the Global South as much as from Europe and North America, The Global South Atlantic helps to rebalance global literary studies by making visible a multi-textured South Atlantic system that is neither singular nor stable.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157752303321

Autore

Thiers Louis Adolphe

Titolo

The History of the French Revolution Vol I [Illustrated Edition]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waipu : , : Normanby Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78720-280-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (727 p.)

Collana

The History of the French Revolution Series

Altri autori (Persone)

ShoberlFrederick

Disciplina

944.04

Soggetti

Social change - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon that rapidly brought many of its principles to Western Europe and beyond.Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, the Revolution profoundly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of absolute monarchies while replacing them with republics and liberal democracies.Through the Revolutionary Wars, it unleashed a wave of global conflicts that extended from the Caribbean to the Middle East. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in human history.Written by the first President of the French Third Republic himself, Louis Adolphe Thiers, this is the first of five volumes originally published in 1881 that together represent one of the earliest historical texts on the French Revolution, and one that became widely regarded as a standard authority. Richly illustrated throughout.An important addition to your French History collection.