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UNINA9910788991303321 |
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Titolo |
Postcolonial slavery [[electronic resource] ] : an overview of colonialism's legacy / / edited by Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn |
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Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-41384-8 |
9786612413841 |
1-4438-1457-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BakerCharlotte <1976-> |
JahnJennifer |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. (Mis-)representations -- pt. II. Breaking silences, re-writing history -- pt. III. Postcolonial slavery. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law banning the slave trade. Slavery and its legacies galvanized a diachronic series of ethnic crossings and transformations that engendered new and complex patterns of crosscultural contact. And the importa... |
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