August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the "creation myth" of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the "long sixteenth century"- from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in 1607.
During this prolonged century, Horne contends, "whiteness" morphed into "white supremacy," and allowed England to co-opt not only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the fierce resistance by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607. These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and its revolting spawn that became the United States of America.
Автор: Morgan Kenneth Название: Short History of Transatlantic Slavery ISBN: 1780763875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780763873 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would, at later ages, be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations - Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution.
Автор: Restall Matthew, Solari Amara Название: The Maya Apocalypse and Its Western Roots ISBN: 1538154978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538154977 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 95750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Driven by a clear and compelling argument, this engaging book traces apocalyptic thinking in two civilizations-Western and Maya. Looking both back and forward, Matthew Restall and Amara Solari build on their previous study, 2012 and the End of the World, to explore the persistence of our civilization`s end-of-times anxiety and anticipation.
Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the structural origins of American "looting"
Virtually no part of the modern United States--the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements--can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald Horne digs deeply into Europe's colonization of Africa and the New World, when, from Columbus's arrival until the Civil War, some 13 million Africans and some 5 million Native Americans were forced to build and cultivate a society extolling "liberty and justice for all." The seventeenth century was, according to Horne, an era when the roots of slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism became inextricably tangled into a complex history involving war and revolts in Europe, England's conquest of the Scots and Irish, the development of formidable new weaponry able to ensure Europe's colonial dominance, the rebel merchants of North America who created "these United States," and the hordes of Europeans whose newfound opportunities in this "free" land amounted to "combat pay" for their efforts as "white" settlers.
Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain, Horne provides a deeply researched, harrowing account of the apocalyptic loss and misery that likely has no parallel in human history. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism is an essential book that will not allow history to be told by the victors. It is especially needed now, in the age of Trump. For it has never been more vital, Horne writes, "to shed light on the contemporary moment wherein it appears that these malevolent forces have received a new lease on life."
Автор: Olson Steve Название: The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age ISBN: 0393634973 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393634976 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23220.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.
Автор: Callcott Wilfrid Hardy Название: The Western Hemisphere: Its Influence on United States Policies to the End of World War II ISBN: 0292766122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292766129 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 50160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this book, the author traces the rise of awareness of the essential unity of the Western Hemisphere in international affairs.
Автор: Garrett Greg Название: Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse ISBN: 0190260459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190260453 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Living with the Living Dead, Greg Garrett shows that the zombie apocalypse has become an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world, in part because zombies can represent a variety of global threats, from terrorism to Ebola, from economic uncertainty to mental illness.
Автор: Ora Blackmun Название: Western North Carolina: Its Mountains and Its People to 1880 ISBN: 1469641364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469641362 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Published in 1977, Western North Carolina is a narrative history of the Southern Appalachian Mountains up to 1880. Ora Blackmun depicts the stories of native Cherokee and Sequoyah people and pioneers such as William Bartram, Daniel Boone, Bishops Spangenberg and Asbury, and Zeb Vance.
Автор: Seal David Название: Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John`s Apocalypse: Emotions, Empathy, and Engagement with God ISBN: 0761869255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761869252 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 119550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Prayer as Divine Experience examines the emotional language in the prayer preludes contained in 4 Ezra and the hymns recounted in John`s Apocalypse. Based on studies in neuropsychology, readers or hearers of the emotional language could potentially achieve a divine experience similar to what is described in this literature.
Автор: Covey R. Alan Название: Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World ISBN: 0190299126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190299125 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 32200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is a major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts, made possible by new archaeological and archival research. Although based on solid scholarly foundations, Inca Apocalypse will be accessible to non-academic readers.
Автор: Sharp Patrick B. Название: Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture ISBN: 0806143061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806143064 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 38240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between "civilization" and "savagery" in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before Hiroshima, reaching back to Charles Darwin and America's frontier. In Savage Perils, Sharp examines the racial underpinnings of American culture, from the early industrial age to the Cold War. He explores the influence of Darwinism, frontier nostalgia, and literary modernism on the history and representations of nuclear weaponry. Taking into account such factors as anthropological race theory and Asian immigration, he charts the origins of a worldview that continues to shape our culture and politics. Sharp dissects Darwin's arguments regarding the struggle between "civilization" and "savagery," theories that fueled future-war stories ending in Anglo dominance in Britain and influenced Turnerian visions of the frontier in America. Citing George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil," Sharp argues that many Americans still believe in the racially charged opposition between civilization and savagery, and consider the possibility of nonwhite "savages" gaining control of technology the biggest threat in the "war on terror." His insightful book shows us that this conflict is but the latest installment in an ongoing saga that has been at the heart of American identity from the beginning-and that understanding it is essential if we are to eradicate racist mythologies from American life. Patrick B. Sharp is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
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