1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481336603321

Autore

Schott Gaspar <1608-1678.>

Titolo

Pantometrum Kircherianum, hoc est, instrumentum geometricum novum, a celeberrimo viro P. Athanasio Kirchero ante hac inventum, nunc decem libris, universam paene practicam geometriam complectentibus explicatum, perspicuisque demonstrationibus illustratum a R. P. Gaspare Schotto ... cum figuris aeri incisis, & privilegio . [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Würzburg, : [s.n.], 1660

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([26], 408, [20] p., XXXII c. di tav., 4)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958229203321

Autore

Bandele Ramla M. <1949->

Titolo

Black star : African American activism in the international political economy / / Ramla M. Bandele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, 2008

ISBN

9786613097422

9781283097420

1283097427

9780252090455

0252090454

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

320.5/4

Soggetti

African American businesspeople - History

African diaspora - History

Pan-Africanism - History

African American political activists - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A new take on an old term : operationalizing the diaspora concept -- An exploration of the relevant literature -- Still waters : understanding the political economy of the 1920's -- Home dock : United States and the BSL -- Charting the black Atlantic : the UNIA and its location in African-American politics -- Shipping politics : the case of the Black Star Line -- Stormy seas : government obstruction of BSL transnational goals -- Marooned : the rise and fall of the Black Star Line -- Clear waters : implications for the study of diasporas.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes how the first African American mass political organization was able to gain support from throughout the African diaspora to finance the Black Star Line, a black merchant marine that would form the basis of an enclave economy after World War I. Ramla M. Bandele explores the concept of diaspora itself and how it has been applied to the study of émigré and other ethnic networks.   In characterizing the historical and political context of the Black Star Line, Bandele analyzes the international political economy during 1919-25 and considers the black politics of the era, focusing particularly on Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association for its creation of the Black Star Line. She offers an in-depth case study of the Black Star Line as an instance of the African diaspora attempting to link communities and carry out a transnational political and economic project. Arguing that ethnic networks can be legitimate actors in international politics and economics, Bandele also suggests, however, that activists in any given diaspora do not always function as a unit.