Finding Julia: The Early Development of Southeast Missouri, Kaye Smith Hamblin

Автор: Ryan A. Quintana
Название: Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina
ISBN: 1469641062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469641065
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post–War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state, but also established their own extra-legal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals.Combining social history, the study of American politics, and critical geography, Quintana reframes our ideas of early American political development, illuminates the material production of space, and reveals the central role of slaves' daily movements (for their owners and themselves) to the development of the modern state.

Автор: Bruce Lenman
Название: Military Engineers: The Development of the Early Modern European State
ISBN: 1845861205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845861209
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This volume furnishes a unique insight into the role of the Early-Modern European military engineers in the construction and empowerment of sovereign authority, both in European kingdoms and republics and in the vast overseas dominions some of them acquired through the Expansion of Europe.
From the Italian Renaissance to the Napoleonic Wars military engineers became indispensable as devisers of the complex systems of fortification needed to resist more and more powerful artillery. They were equally essential as managers of the technical business of besieging such fortifications.
Though comparatively few in number, they could be the only numerate elite available to rulers. Often from an artistic background, and always with some mathematical training, they were natural polymaths capable of turning their hands to an astonishing range of activities. These included cartography,
town and port planning, architecture, drainage and water supply, and road and canal building, not to mention archaeology, fireworks, fountains and fine art. Here an international team of scholars looks at these ubiquitous talents at work in peace and war from Russia and Turkey through western Europe
to America and India, and asks what they tell us about states and identities in a world so different from our own.