Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour, Kate Ekama, Lisa Hellman, Matthias van Rossum
Автор: Dowlah Caf Название: Foundations of Modern Slavery: Profiles of Unfree and Coerced Labor Through the Ages ISBN: 0367749068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367749064 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 224570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is an academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for creation of wealth, capital accumulation, and industrialization. It analyses major forms of unfree and involuntary labor markets theoretically and empirically from multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives.
Автор: Robert T. Chase Название: We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners` Rights in Postwar America ISBN: 1469653575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469653570 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. This book highlights untold but important truths about the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the US.
Автор: Chase Robert T. Название: We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners` Rights in Postwar America ISBN: 1469669315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469669311 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29220.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public as modern, efficient, and disciplined. Inside prisons, however, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, intensifying the labor division that privileged some prisoners with the power to accelerate state-orchestrated brutality and the internal sex trade. Reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change.Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. These insurgents won epochal legal victories that declared conditions in many southern prisons to be cruel and unusual--but their movement was overwhelmed by the increasing militarization of the prison system and empowerment of white supremacist gangs that, together, declared war on prison organizers. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.
Автор: Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang Название: Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700 ISBN: 0824852761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824852764 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 75770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the contested and fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for centuries, but it was during the long seventeenth century, from 1550 to 1700, that the velocity and scale of commerce began to increase dramatically. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese smugglers and pirates forged autonomous networks, or in the case of the Zheng family of southeastern China and Taiwan, maritime-focused polities. They competed and cooperated with one another and with ambitious state-builders, such as the Manchu Qing, Tokugawa Japan, the Iberians, and the Dutch.What happened as all of these peoples, each with their own legal and cultural notions about the seas and seaborne commerce, came into increasing contact? Maritime East Asia was in many ways a zone of contradictions, subject to multiple legal, political, and religious jurisdictions and mediums of communication lost or manipulated in translation among dozens of major languages and countless dialects. Informal networks based upon kinship and patron-client ties mingled uneasily with formal bureaucratic structures and rationalized monopoly organizations. Subsistence-based trade and plunder by destitute fishermen complemented the grand dreams of sea-lords, profit-maximizing entrepreneurs, and imperial contenders. Despite their shifting identities, East Asia's mariners sought to anchor their activities to stable legitimacies and diplomatic traditions found outside the system. On the other hand, outsiders, even those armed with the latest military technology, could never fully impose their values upon the institutional fluidity of maritime East Asia.This multilateral perspective of a world in flux opens a whole range of contingencies to accepted narratives of the ""rise of the West."" Consider, for example that European mariners, whom we have come to associate with catalyzing globalization and opening oceanic trade routes, were far from the most important actors in East and Southeast Asia. During the period surveyed in these pages, it was the Chinese whose traders carried more in volume and value than any other nation. The authors of this volume offer a new perspective not just on East Asian history but on global history, because the China Seas were key to forging the connections of early globalization, as important as the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean basin, both of which regions have received far more scholarly attention. The multiplicity of possibilities remains in the twenty-first century, as a resurgent China attempts to reassert its traditional hegemony in competition with other native and outside players.
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the environment and current assumptions about nature and culture.
A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of eco–art history, the book examines architecture, paintings, photography, and prints created in Braj alongside theological treatises and devotional poetry to foreground seepages between the natural ecosystem and cultural production. The paintings of deified rivers, temples that emulate fragrant groves, and talismanic bleeding rocks that Ray discusses will captivate readers interested in environmental humanities and South Asian art history.
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Автор: Bulliet Richard, Crossley Pamela, Headrick Daniel Название: The Earth and Its Peoples, Brief Volume I: To 1550: A Global History ISBN: 128544552X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781285445526 Издательство: Cengage Learning Цена: 64410.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global world history book employs fundamental themes of �environment and technology� and �diversity and dominance� to explore patterns of humans' interactions with their surroundings and with each other. The authors' approach reveals how humanity continues to shape and be shaped by our environments and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs.
Автор: Dobson David Название: Scottish-German Links, 1550-1850. Second Edition ISBN: 0806355530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806355535 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Tamara H. Bentley Название: Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800 ISBN: 9462984670 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462984677 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 180230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illustrates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800.
Название: Literary hispanophobia and hispanophilia in britain and the low countries (1550-1850) ISBN: 9462989370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462989375 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 180230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the protracted interest in Spain and its culture, and it exposes the co-existent ambiguity between scorn and fascination that characterizes Western historical perceptions, in particular in Britain and the Low Countries.
Автор: Andreas Holzem Название: Christianity in Germany 1550–1850: Confessionalization – Enlightenment – Pluralization ISBN: 3506795236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783506795236 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 330730.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Christianity did not reach the modern age by straight paths, but by crooked ones: For two centuries after the Reformation, Catholics and Protestants fought over the truth of their religion. They waged merciless wars and concluded fragile peace treaties. They invested in education and culture. They professionalized clerics and civil servants and tried harder than ever to shape the everyday lives of ordinary people in the villages and towns. They persecuted witches and learned to control the fear of magic.The Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars created completely new conditions for making Christianity plausible for the modern era.The book describes the enormous efforts under which Catholic and Protestant men and women faced the upheavals between the Reformation and the Revolution. Many of these efforts were similar. But their respective ‘religious knowledge’ developed significantly different.
Автор: Cle Lesger Название: Shopping Spaces and the Urban Landscape in Early Modern Amsterdam, 1550-1850 ISBN: 9463720626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463720625 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 199930.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In this study, the appearance and location of shops in Amsterdam during the early modern period is linked to major changes in the urban economy, the size and socio-spatial distribution of its population, and the structure of the urban grid. Not only is there ample attention for the spatial distribution of shops across the urban landscape, but for the first time it is also accurately charted what the exterior and interior of Amsterdam shops looked like and how they changed in the course of the centuries. Partly as a result of this, it has proved possible to give an impression of the ways in which retailers and customers interacted. The Dutch language edition of this book is available from Uitgeverij Verloren (2013): Het winkellandschap van Amsterdam, ISBN: 978 90 8704 373 5.
