Outsourcing african labor : kru migratory workers in global ports, estates and battlefields until the end of the 19th century / / Jeffrey Gunn |
Autore | Gunn Jeff |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVII, 258 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.626 |
Collana | Africa in Global History |
Soggetto topico | Migrant labor - History - Africa - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Britsh Empire
Freetown Krutown Trade |
ISBN | 3-11-068033-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Free Wage Labor African Diaspora -- Chapter 1: Surfboats -- Chapter 2: Freetown – A Catalyst for Diaspora -- Chapter 3: The Expansion of Kru Labor in the Royal Navy -- Chapter 4: Kru Labor in Expeditions and Military Campaigns -- Chapter 5: Kru Labor in the British Caribbean -- Chapter 6: Growth in Diaspora and Decline in the Homeland -- Conclusion: Kru Free Wage Laborers in Global History -- Appendix A: Muster Lists, 1819–20 -- Appendix B: Interviews -- Glossary of Kru Language Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996543169203316 |
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Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Outsourcing african labor : kru migratory workers in global ports, estates and battlefields until the end of the 19th century / / Jeffrey Gunn |
Autore | Gunn Jeff |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVII, 258 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.626 |
Collana | Africa in Global History |
Soggetto topico | Migrant labor - History - Africa - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Britsh Empire
Freetown Krutown Trade |
ISBN | 3-11-068033-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Free Wage Labor African Diaspora -- Chapter 1: Surfboats -- Chapter 2: Freetown – A Catalyst for Diaspora -- Chapter 3: The Expansion of Kru Labor in the Royal Navy -- Chapter 4: Kru Labor in Expeditions and Military Campaigns -- Chapter 5: Kru Labor in the British Caribbean -- Chapter 6: Growth in Diaspora and Decline in the Homeland -- Conclusion: Kru Free Wage Laborers in Global History -- Appendix A: Muster Lists, 1819–20 -- Appendix B: Interviews -- Glossary of Kru Language Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910776173103321 |
Gunn Jeff
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Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ripples of Hope / Robert M. Press |
Autore | Press Robert M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam University Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
Disciplina | 323 |
Collana | Protest and social movements |
Soggetto topico |
Nonviolence - Africa
Protest movements - Africa Social movements - Africa Government, Resistance to - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
opportunity
politics freedom africa nonviolent resistance social movements democracy human rights Freetown Kenya Liberia Military dictatorship Sierra Leone |
ISBN | 90-485-2515-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction ; Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone. Students shake the pillars of power ; Women help restore democracy ; Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia. Nonviolent resistance in abeyance ; Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya. Individual resistance against repression ; Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Methodology ; Interviews ; Comparative levels of repression ; Chronologies ; Abbreviations and significant terms. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910137404103321 |
Press Robert M.
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Amsterdam University Press, 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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