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  • 1
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    Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-present (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316257852
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: The International African library 49
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    DDC: 306.3/6209667
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    LB 50528
    Keywords: Geschichte 1850-2015 ; Religion ; Sklaverei ; Anlo (African people) / Religion ; Cults / Ghana ; Collective memory / Ghana ; Slavery / Ghana / Religious aspects ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Religiöser Wandel ; Sklaverei ; Ahlŏ ; Ghana ; Ghana ; Ahlŏ ; Sklaverei ; Religiöser Wandel ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Geschichte 1850-2015
    Abstract: Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it focuses on a corpus of rituals collectively known as 'Fofie', which derived their legitimacy from engaging with the memory of the slave-holding past. The Anlo developed a sense of discomfort about their agency in slavery in the early twentieth century which they articulated through practices such as ancestor veneration, spirit possession, and by forging links with descendants of peoples they formerly enslaved. Conversion to Christianity, engagement with 'modernity', trans-Atlantic conversations with diasporan Africans, and citizenship of the postcolonial state coupled with structural changes within the religious system - which resulted in the decline in Fofie's popularity - gradually altered the moral emphases of legacies of slavery in the Anlo historical imagination as the twentieth century progressed
    Description / Table of Contents: Ghosts of slavery? -- The Anlo-Ewe : portrait of a people -- The dance of Alegba : Anlo-Ewe religion -- Slavery in the Anlo imagination -- Religion and society in early modern Anlo, c. 1750-c. 1910 -- Gods from the north, c. 1910-c. 1940 -- 'Yesu vide, dzo vide' : the dynamics of Anlo religion, c. 1940-c. 2010 -- Conclusion : ritual servitude, trans-Atlantic conversations, and religious change
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316257852
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    Bridging the Atlantic : the question of American exceptionalism in perspective (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139052306
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    DDC: 303.48/273043
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    NK 7509
    Keywords: National characteristics, American / Congresses ; Exceptionalism / United States / Congresses ; Historiography / Methodology / Congresses ; Außenpolitik ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Deutschland ; Europa ; USA ; United States / Relations / Germany / Congresses ; Germany / Relations / United States / Congresses ; United States / Relations / Europe / Congresses ; Europe / Relations / United States / Congresses ; United States / Civilization / Congresses ; Germany / Civilization / Congresses ; Europe / Civilization / Congresses ; Deutschland ; USA ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Außenpolitik ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. Including case studies on British, German and US history since the eighteenth century, it seeks to establish an integrated vision of Atlantic history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate between American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations
    Description / Table of Contents: Liberal democracy as a culture of rights : England, the United States, and Continental Europe / Gerald Stourzh -- American exceptionalism : republicanism as ideology / Ari Hoogenboom -- The role of religion in Germany and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Hartmut Lehmann -- The impact of Darwinism on religion and science in America and Europe during the nineteenth century / Carl N. Degler -- Nationalism as a civil religion in the thought of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, and Otto von Bismarck / Hans L. Trefousse -- German Catholic communalism and the American Civil War : exploring the dilemmas of transatlantic political integration / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Toward a comparative history of racism and xenophobia in the United States and Germany, 1865-1933 / Kenneth L. Kusmer -- Movie stereotypes, 1890-1918 : some German and American national perceptions / Daniel J. Leab -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler : a contemporary comparison revisited / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- The role of the banker in transatlantic history : J.P. Morgan & Co. and aid for the Allies, 1914-1916 / Elisabeth Glaser -- Transatlantic history as national history? Thoughts on German post-World War II historiography / Peter Krüger -- American exceptionalism as national history? / Hans R. Guggisberg -- The historical world of Erich Angermann / Hermann Wellenreuther
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139052306
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    Debating slavery : economy and society in the antebellum American South (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139171120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 36
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    DDC: 306.3/62/0975
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    NP 6020
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    NW 8295
    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-1860 ; Geschichte ; Geschichte 1800-1861 ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Slavery / Economic aspects / Southern States ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte ; Southern States / Economic conditions ; USA Südstaaten ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1790-1860 ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1800-1861 ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139171120
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    Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139170994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (v, 84 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 11
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    DDC: 304.8/094/09034
    RVK:
    LB 56005
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    NP 1300
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    NW 2200
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    NW 2250
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    RC 10594
    Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Geschichte 1815 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Soziale Probleme ; Auswanderung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Europa ; Europe / Emigration and immigration / History ; USA ; Europa ; Europa ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Soziale Probleme ; Geschichte 1815 ; USA ; Wirtschaftliche Lage
    Abstract: Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many emigrants return to Europe? This short comprehensive survey answers these and other questions regarding emigration from different parts of Europe in the years between 1815 and 1930. Written specifically for undergraduate students, it reviews the current literature in several European languages, summarises both economic and demographic theories, and analyses the relation between economic change in Europe and the emigration rate, as well as discussing the economic effects of immigration on the receiving countries and the social experiences or the immigrants
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139170994
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    The retreat of scientific racism : changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8
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    MC 7400
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    MS 3530
    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte ; Race ; Physical anthropology ; Eugenics / Great Britain / History ; Eugenics / United States / History ; Racism / Great Britain / History ; Racism / United States / History ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Begriff ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Great Britain / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Rassismus ; Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rasse ; Begriff ; Wissenschaft ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rassismus ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; USA ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Großbritannien ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; USA ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Rassenfrage ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1914-1945
    Abstract: This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Anthropology , Constructing a British identity , Colors into races , A transition to modern British anthropology , The founding fathers , Mummies, bones and stones , The shift in British archaeology , A British glimpse at race relations , American diversity , Haunted sentinels , European skulls and the primitive mind , The Boasians , American physical anthropology , The politics of coexistence , Dionysia in the Pacific , Biology , In search of a biology of race , NewGenics , The statistician's fable , Race crossing in Jamaica , A Canadian in London: rigid Reginald Ruggles Gates , The limit of traditional reform , A racist liberal: Julian Huxley's early years , Herbert Spencer Jennings and progressive eugenics , A conservative critique: Raymond Pearl , Bridging race formalism and population genetics , Mitigating racial differences , Lancelot Hogben , "Africa view"--Huxley's changing perspectives , J.B.S. Haldane: a defiant aristocrat , Medicine and eugenics: expanding the environment , Eugenics reformed , Politics , Confronting racism: scientists as politicians , 1933--Early hesitations , Britain--Race and Culture Committee , We Europeans , The American scene , An international interlude , The Paris Congress , The population committee , Out of the closet
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511558351
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    Family forms in historic Europe (1983)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511897535
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 606 pages)
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    DDC: 306.8/5/094
    RVK:
    LB 41005
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    MS 1900
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    NW 8150
    Keywords: Geschichte 800-1970 ; Geschichte ; Families / Europe / History ; Households / Europe / History ; Sozialgeschichte ; Familiensoziologie ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Familie ; Sozialgeschichte ; Europa ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Familie ; Geschichte 800-1970 ; Familiensoziologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The family forms of historic Europe have been fascinating in their variety. Their importance for the historical development of our continent would be difficult to exaggerate; for our relationship with the peoples of the other continents of the world as well. This book is an attempt to recover the different familial systems and compare them with one another. The studies range from Russia, Poland, Hungary and Austria to Scandinavia, Flanders and Britain. All the influences which have affected the character and composition of European households are taken into account. The analysis covers their function as productive work groups, in the procreation and bringing up of children, and in the support of the elderly, and their relationship with the wider society and its norms along with its political organization, central and local. Claims that inheritance customs and inheritance practice and the occupation of the household head exerted a powerful influence on the size and composition of households are subjected to rigorous and systematic investigation
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511897535
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