1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511620003321

Autore

Morgan Kenneth <1953->

Titolo

A short history of transatlantic slavery / / Kenneth Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2019

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

1-350-98520-1

0-85772-855-5

0-85772-852-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) : ill

Collana

I.B. Tauris short histories

Classificazione

36.12.04

Disciplina

381.44091821

Soggetti

Slave trade - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Slavery & abolition of slavery

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The flows of the slave trade -- The slaving business -- Plantation slavery -- Slave resistance -- The abolition of the slave trade -- Slave emancipation.

Sommario/riassunto

"From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations - Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this



timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution."--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557393303321

Autore

Nee A.Y.C

Titolo

Digital Twins in Industry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Digital Twins in Industry is a compilation of works by authors with specific emphasis on industrial applications. Much of the research on digital twins has been conducted by the academia in both theoretical considerations and laboratory-based prototypes. Industry, while taking the lead on larger scale implementations of Digital Twins (DT) using sophisticated software, is concentrating on dedicated solutions that are not within the reach of the average-sized industries. This book covers 11 chapters of various implementations of DT. It provides an insight for companies who are contemplating the adaption of the DT technology, as well as researchers and senior students in exploring the potential of DT and its associated technologies.