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  • KOBV  (3)
  • Walvin, James  (2)
  • Berger, Stefan  (1)
  • Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard
  • London : Routledge  (2)
  • New York : Pegasus Books  (1)
  • History  (3)
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    Freedom : the overthrowing of the slave empires (2019)
    New York : Pegasus Books
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    ISBN: 9781643132068 , 1643132067
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 304 pages , map , 24 cm
    Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition
    DDC: 306.3/6209
    Keywords: Slave insurrections History 19th century ; Slaves Emancipation 19th century ; History ; Slavery History 19th century ; Slave insurrections ; Slavery ; Slaves ; Emancipation ; History ; Amerika ; Sklavenaufstand ; Sklaverei ; Abschaffung ; Geschichte 1750-1890
    Abstract: People as things: The slave trade -- Sinews of empire: Africans and the making of American empires -- Slave defiance -- The slave owners' nightmare: Haiti -- The Friends of Black Freedom -- Freeing Britain's slaves -- The fall of US slavery -- The end of slavery in the Spanish empire -- The last to go: Brazil -- Abolition in the wider world -- Slavery in the modern age -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: "The critically acclaimed author of Sugar explains one of the major shifts in Western history in the past five centuries--the end of the slave empires. In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance of the enslaved themselves--from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings--and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks that whole Atlantic world, including the Spanish Empire and Brazil, all of which revolved around slavery. In the three centuries following Columbus's landfall in the Americas, slavery became a critical institution across swathes of both North and South America. It saw twelve million Africans forced onto slave ships, and had seismic consequences for Africa while leading to the transformation of the Americas and to the material enrichment of the Western world. It was also largely unquestioned. Yet within a mere seventy-five years, slavery had vanished from the Americas: it declined, collapsed and was destroyed by a complexity of forces that, to this day, remains disputed, but there is no doubting that it was in large part defeated by those it had enslaved. Slavery itself came in many shapes and sizes. It is perhaps best remembered on the plantations of the American south, but slavery varied enormously from one crop to another: sugar, tobacco, rice, coffee, cotton. And there was in addition myriad tasks for the enslaved to do, from shipboard and dockside labor, from factories to the frontier, through to domestic labor and child-care duties. Slavery was, then, both ubiquitous and varied. But if all these millions of diverse, enslaved people had one thing in common it was a universal detestation of their bondage. Most of these enslaved peoples did not live to see freedom. But an old freed man or woman in Cuba or Brazil in the 1880s would have lived through its destruction clean across the Americas. The collapse of slavery and the triumph of black freedom constitutes an extraordinary historical upheaval, one which still resonates throughout the world today."--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index
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  • 2
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    Popularizing National Pasts : 1800 to the Present (2012)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 9781136592898
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (377 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Approaches to History Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Popularizing national pasts
    Parallel Title: Popularizing national pasts
    DDC: 940.072
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    Keywords: Historiography ; Historiography Social aspects ; Nationalism History ; Historiography - Social aspects - Europe ; Electronic books ; Europe Historiography ; Historiography ; Europe ; History ; Historiography ; Social aspects ; Europe ; Nationalism ; Europe ; History ; Europe ; Historiography ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Popularisierung ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Geschichte 1800-2012 ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Popularisierung ; Europa ; Geschichte 1800-2012
    Abstract: Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross-national angle of Popularizing National Pasts is apparent in the scope of its comparative project, as well as that of the longue durée it covers. Apart from essays on Britain, France, and Germany, the collection includes studies of popular histories in Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, notably Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Armenia, Russia and the Ukraine, as well as considering the US and Argentina. Cross-national comparison is also a central concern of the thirteen case studies in the volume, which are, each, devoted to comparing between two, or more, national historical cultures. Thus temporality -both continuities and breaks- in popular notions of the past, its interpretations and consumption, is examined in the long continuum. The volume makes available to English readers, probably for the first time, the cutting edge of Eastern European scholarship on popular histories, nationalism and culture.
    Abstract: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 1 Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History -- 2 History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France -- 3 'That Which We Learn with the Eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century London and Paris -- 4 Popular Heritage and Commodification Debates in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain, France, and Germany -- PART II Popular National Histories in Multiple Pasts from the Late 18th to the Late 20th Century: Ethnographies, Historiographies, Fiction and Film -- 5 Imagining Russia's Pasts: Revolutionary and Tsarist Russia in American, British, and German Cinema, 1927-39 -- 6 Balkans Baedecker for Übermensch Tourists: Janko Janev's Popular Historiosophy -- 7 Exhibiting Scandinavian Culture: The National Museums of Denmark and Sweden -- 8 Locating Transylvanians: Real and Fictional Ethnohistories -- PART III Popular and Unpopular Pasts: National Histories after 1945 -- 9 Migrants, Foreigners, Jews, and the Cultural Structure of Prejudice: The Nation as Performative Event in US and German TV Crime Dramas -- 10 Filming a Liveable Past: The 1970s-80s in Contemporary Russian Cinema -- 11 On Track to the Grand Prix: The National Eurovision Competition as National History -- 12 A City and Its Pasts: Popular Histories in Kaliningrad between Regionalization and Nationalization -- 13 The Internet and National Histories -- 14 'Unpopular Past': The Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Their Rebellion against History -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; PART I Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 1 Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History; 2 History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France; 3 'That Which We Learn with the Eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century London and Paris
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Popular Heritage and Commodification Debates in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain, France, and GermanyPART II Popular National Histories in Multiple Pasts from the Late 18th to the Late 20th Century: Ethnographies, Historiographies, Fiction and Film; 5 Imagining Russia's Pasts: Revolutionary and Tsarist Russia in American, British, and German Cinema, 1927-39; 6 Balkans Baedecker for Übermensch Tourists: Janko Janev's Popular Historiosophy; 7 Exhibiting Scandinavian Culture: The National Museums of Denmark and Sweden; 8 Locating Transylvanians: Real and Fictional Ethnohistories
    Description / Table of Contents: PART III Popular and Unpopular Pasts: National Histories after 19459 Migrants, Foreigners, Jews, and the Cultural Structure of Prejudice: The Nation as Performative Event in US and German TV Crime Dramas; 10 Filming a Liveable Past: The 1970s-80s in Contemporary Russian Cinema; 11 On Track to the Grand Prix: The National Eurovision Competition as National History; 12 A City and Its Pasts: Popular Histories in Kaliningrad between Regionalization and Nationalization; 13 The Internet and National Histories
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 'Unpopular Past': The Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo and their Rebellion against History; Notes on Contributors; Index;
    Description / Table of Contents: ethnographies, historiographies, fiction and film -- pt. 3. Popular and unpopular paste : national histories after 1945
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  • 3
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    Questioning slavery (1996)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 9780415153560 , 0415153565 , 9780415153577 , 0415153573 , 0203277368 , 9780203277362 , 0203442873 , 9780203442876
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 202 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Questioning slavery
    DDC: 306.3620942
    Keywords: Slavery Colonies ; History ; Great Britain ; Slave trade History ; Great Britain ; Slavery Colonies ; History ; Slave trade History ; Slavery Colonies ; History ; Slave trade History ; Esclavitud Comercio ; Historia ; Gran Bretaña ; Great Britain ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery ; Slave trade ; Slavery ; Colonies ; History ; Great Britain ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: 1. Forging the link : Europe, Africa and the Americas -- 2. But why slavery? -- 3. Varieties of labour -- 4. Domination and control -- 5. Colour, race and subjugation -- 6. Men and women -- 7. The culture of resistance -- 8. Cultivating independence -- 9. Ending slavery -- 10. Freedom and varieties of slavery.
    Abstract: For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on slavery. Yet these systems were mainly brought to a very rapid end. This text surveys the key questions of slavery, and traces the arguments which have swirled around its history in recent years. The latest findings on slavery are presented, and a comparative analysis of slavery in the English-speaking Americas is offered
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Forging the link : Europe, Africa and the Americas2. But why slavery? -- 3. Varieties of labour -- 4. Domination and control -- 5. Colour, race and subjugation -- 6. Men and women -- 7. The culture of resistance -- 8. Cultivating independence -- 9. Ending slavery -- 10. Freedom and varieties of slavery.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and index. - Description based on print version record
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