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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
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
Gunn Jeff  
Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]
Materiale a stampa
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
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  
Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Ripples of Hope / Robert M. Press
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.  
Amsterdam University Press, 2015
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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