An Aqueous Territory
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An Aqueous Territory
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Author : Ernesto Bassi
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-02
An Aqueous Territory written by Ernesto Bassi and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-02 with History categories.
In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives bounded by geopolitical borders. Rather, the cross-border activities of sailors, traders, revolutionaries, indigenous peoples, and others reflected their perceptions of the Caribbean as a transimperial space where trade, information, and people circulated, both conforming to and in defiance of imperial regulations. Bassi demonstrates that the islands, continental coasts, and open waters of the transimperial Greater Caribbean constituted a space that was simultaneously Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Danish, Anglo-American, African, and indigenous. Exploring the "lived geographies" of the region's dwellers, Bassi challenges preconceived notions of the existence of discrete imperial spheres and the inevitable emergence of independent nation-states while providing insights into how people envision their own futures and make sense of their place in the world.
A Camera In The Garden Of Eden
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Author : Kevin Coleman
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2016-02-23
A Camera In The Garden Of Eden written by Kevin Coleman and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with History categories.
In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company's power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries in which it operated, giving rise to the notion of company-dominated "banana republics." In A Camera in the Garden of Eden, Kevin Coleman argues that the "banana republic" was an imperial constellation of images and practices that was checked and contested by ordinary Central Americans. Drawing on a trove of images from four enormous visual archives and a wealth of internal company memos, literary works, immigration records, and declassified US government telegrams, Coleman explores how banana plantation workers, women, and peasants used photography to forge new ways of being while also visually asserting their rights as citizens. He tells a dramatic story of the founding of the Honduran town of El Progreso, where the United Fruit Company had one of its main divisional offices, the rise of the company now known as Chiquita, and a sixty-nine day strike in which banana workers declared their independence from neocolonial domination. In telling this story, Coleman develops a new set of conceptual tools and methods for using images to open up fresh understandings of the past, offering a model that is applicable far beyond this pathfinding study.
From Shipmates To Soldiers
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Author : Alex Borucki
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2015
From Shipmates To Soldiers written by Alex Borucki and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Black people categories.
This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence.
Sustainable Land Use In Deserts
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Author : Siegmar-W. Breckle
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Sustainable Land Use In Deserts written by Siegmar-W. Breckle and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
Changing desert areas for land use implies a lot of ecological problems. These and related ones are dealt with in this book covering various interdisciplinary and international aspects. Large areas in arid and semi-arid regions are already polluted in various ways. One of the biggest problems is the anthropogenic salinization by inadequate means of agriculture and irrigation. Additionally, most arid areas in the world are dramatically overgrazed. Methods and practices of a sustainable land use in deserts are urgently needed in many arid regions. This book gives a broad survey on some of the affected regions of the world as well as some case studies from elsewhere (Aral Sea, Negev desert, Namib desert etc.). Thus, basic and applied sciences are brought together. Water management in deserts, grazing systems or reclamation of desertified areas are among the topics of this book, as well as social and economic aspects.
Thinking With Water
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Author : Cecilia Chen
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Thinking With Water written by Cecilia Chen and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.
Empire S Garden
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Author : Jayeeta Sharma
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-08
Empire S Garden written by Jayeeta Sharma and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08 with Business & Economics categories.
A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.
Freedom S Mirror
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Author : Ada Ferrer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-28
Freedom S Mirror written by Ada Ferrer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-28 with History categories.
"The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 was the only slave rebellion in which slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state, making it perhaps the most radical revolution of the modern world. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba, barely fifty miles away, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. There, planters and authorities saw the devastation of their neighboring colony and rushed to prevent the same events from happening in Cuba by buttressing the institutions of slavery and colonial rule. Freedom's Mirror follows the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred at the very moment that the Haitian Revolution provided a powerful and proximate example of slaves destroying slavery. By linking two stories--the story of the Haitian Revolution and that of the rise of Cuban slave society--that are usually told separately, Ada Ferrer sheds fresh light on both of these crucial moments in Caribbean and Atlantic history"--Provided by publisher.
Lost Shores Forgotten Peoples
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Author : Lawrence H. Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000
Lost Shores Forgotten Peoples written by Lawrence H. Feldman and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples is the first collection and translation of important seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great "Ocean Sea" and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. In these narratives--primary documents written by missionaries and conquistadors--vivid details of these little known Mayan cultures are revealed, answering how and why lowlanders were able to evade Spanish conquest while similar civilizations could not. Fascinating tales of the journey from Europe are included, involving unknown islands, lost pilots, life aboard a galleon fleet, political intrigue, cannibals, and breathtaking natural beauty. In short, these forgotten manuscripts--translations of the papers of the past--provide an unforgettable look at an understudied chapter in the age of exploration. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples will appeal to archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians interested in Central America, the Maya, and the Spanish Conquest.
Colloidal Quantum Dot Optoelectronics And Photovoltaics
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Author : Gerasimos Konstantatos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Colloidal Quantum Dot Optoelectronics And Photovoltaics written by Gerasimos Konstantatos and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Science categories.
Captures the most up-to-date research in the field, written in an accessible style by the world's leading experts.
Indian And Slave Royalists In The Age Of Revolution
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Author : Marcela Echeverri
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-25
Indian And Slave Royalists In The Age Of Revolution written by Marcela Echeverri and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with History categories.
Marcela Echeverri draws a picture of the royalist region of Popayán (modern-day Colombia) that reveals deep chronological layers and multiple social and spatial textures. She uses royalism as a lens to rethink the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution.