The deepest south [[electronic resource] ] : the United States, Brazil, and the African slave trade / / Gerald Horne |
Autore | Horne Gerald |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3/62 |
Soggetto topico |
Slave trade - America - History - 19th century
Slavery - United States - History - 19th century Slavery - Brazil - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
Based
Gerald Horne archives breaks continents defenders degrees dimensions extensive five from global ground history maintain research slavery startling uncovering went which |
ISBN |
0-8147-9073-9
0-8147-3728-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Toward the empire of Brazil -- Into Africa -- Buying and kidnapping Africans -- Wise -- Crisis -- The U.S. to seize the Amazon -- Making the slave trade legal -- The Civil War begins/the slave trade continues -- Deport U.S. Negroes to Brazil -- Confederates to Brazil -- The end of slavery and the slave trade. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782014203321 |
Horne Gerald
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New York, : New York University Press, c2007 | ||
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The myth of continents [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of metageography / / Martin W. Lewis, Kären E. Wigen |
Autore | Lewis Martin W |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WigenKären <1958-> |
Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception
Geopolitics |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
afghanistan analysis asia cold war continental divide continents criticism critique economic economy europe first world geographical geography global government historian historical international issues international law and order macroregions misconception myth pakistan philosophy regional scholarly third world world issues |
ISBN |
1-280-08025-6
9786613520241 0-520-91859-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF MAPS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Architecture of Continents -- 2. The Spatial Constructs of Orient and Occident, East and West -- 3. The Cultural Constructs of Orient and Occident, East and West -- 4. Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism -- 5. Global Geography in the Historical Imagination -- 6. World Regions: An Alternative Scheme -- CONCLUSION: TOWARD A CRITICAL METAGEOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789946603321 |
Lewis Martin W
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997 | ||
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Plague ports [[electronic resource] ] : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901 / / Myron Echenberg |
Autore | Echenberg Myron J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.5/732 |
Soggetto topico | Plague - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Plague
Ports ago bubonic century cities continents epidemic five globe initial lives million more ravaged story swept taking tells than that third were years |
ISBN | 0-8147-2282-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1. An Unexampled Calamity -- 2. City of the Plague -- 3. The Plague Has at Last Arrived -- 4. They Have a Love of Clean Underlinen and of Fresh Air -- 5. A Bubonic Plague Epidemic Does Not Exist in This Country Buenos Aires, 1900 -- 6. The Victory of Hygiene, Good Taste, and Art -- 7. Plague in Paradise -- 8. Black Plague Creeps into America -- 9. The Inhabitants of Sydney No More Go Barefoot Than Do the Inhabitants of London -- 10. It Is a Miracle We Are Not Visited by a Black Plague -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782712203321 |
Echenberg Myron J
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New York, : New York University Press, c2007 | ||
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