In The Bight

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In The Bight Of Benin

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Author : Alec John Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

In The Bight Of Benin written by Alec John Dawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Africa, West categories.

The Slave Trade And Culture In The Bight Of Biafra

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Author : G. Ugo Nwokeji
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-13

The Slave Trade And Culture In The Bight Of Biafra written by G. Ugo Nwokeji 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 2010-09-13 with History categories.

The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and how such large-scale commerce developed in the absence of large-scale centralized states. The result is the first study to link the structure and trajectory of the slave trade in a major exporting region to the expansion of a specific African merchant group - among other fresh insights into Atlantic Africa's involvement in the trade - and the most comprehensive treatment of Atlantic slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. The fundamental role of culture in the organization of trade is highlighted, transcending the usual economic explanations in a way that complicates traditional generalizations about work, domestic slavery, and gender in pre-colonial Africa.

Halfhyde At The Bight Of Benin

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Author : Philip McCutchan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2004-04-01

Halfhyde At The Bight Of Benin written by Philip McCutchan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with Fiction categories.

It's the 1890s and Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde finds himself out of favor with the Navy and on half-pay ashore when he is summoned to the Admiralty. His mission: to sail to the Bight of Benin in West Africa and spy on the not-so-secret Russian presence there. As a Russian speaker who is familiar with Benin, Halfhyde is confident he's the man for the job--until he runs into Admiral Prince Gorsinski, cousin of the Czar and Halfhyde's former jailer.

The Architecture Of The Bight Of Biafra

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Author : Joseph Godlewski
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-03-06

The Architecture Of The Bight Of Biafra written by Joseph Godlewski and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-06 with Architecture categories.

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub‐Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity. Intersected by small creeks, rivulets, and dotted with mangrove swamps, the Bight of Biafra has a long history of decentralized political arrangements and intricate trading networks predating the emergence of the Atlantic world. While indigenous merchants in the region were active participants in the transatlantic slave trading system, they creatively resisted European settlement and maintained indigenous sovereignty until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since few built artifacts still exist, this study draws from a close reading of written sources—travelers’ accounts, slave traders’ diaries, missionary memoirs, colonial records, and oral histories—as well as contemporary fieldwork to trace transformations in the region’s built environment from the sixteenth century to today. With each chapter focusing on a particular spatial paradigm in this dynamic process, this book uncovers the manifold and inventive ways in which actors strategically adapted the built environment to adjust to changing cultural and economic circumstances. In parallel, it highlights the ways that these spaces were rhetorically constructed and exploited by foreign observers and local agents. Enmeshed in the history of slavery, colonialism, and the modern construction of race, the spatial dynamics of the Biafran region have not been geographically delimited. The central thesis of this volume is that these spaces of entanglement have been productive sites of Black identity formation involving competing and overlapping interests, occupying multiple positions and temporalities, and ensnaring real, imagined, and sometimes contradictory aims. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, architectural history, urban geography, African studies, and Atlantic studies.

Canto Bight Star Wars

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Author : Saladin Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-12-05

Canto Bight Star Wars written by Saladin Ahmed and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with Fiction categories.

As seen in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, welcome to the casino city of Canto Bight. A place where exotic aliens, captivating creatures, and other would-be high rollers are willing to risk everything to make their fortunes. Set across one fateful evening, these four original novellas explore the deception and danger of the lavish casino city. An honest salesman meets a career criminal as a dream vacation turns into the worst nightmare imaginable in a story by Saladin Ahmed. Dreams and schemes collide when a deal over a priceless bottle of wine becomes a struggle for survival as told by Mira Grant. Old habits die hard when a servant is forced into the mad struggle for power among Canto Bight’s elite in a tale by Rae Carson. A deadbeat gambler has one last chance to turn his luck around, all he has to do is survive one wild night as told by John Jackson Miller. In Canto Bight, one is free to revel in excess, untouched from the problems of a galaxy once again descending into chaos and war. Dreams can become reality, but the stakes have never been higher—for there is a darkness obscured by all the glamour and luxury.

Coastal Pollution In The New York Bight And Mid Atlantic

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Coastal Pollution In The New York Bight And Mid Atlantic written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Marine pollution categories.

In The Bight Of Benin

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Author : A. J. Dawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900

In The Bight Of Benin written by A. J. Dawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.

Struggle For Control Of The Hinterland Of The Bight Of Biafra

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Author : Dr. Frank Nwabueze Ihekwaba
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-02-23

Struggle For Control Of The Hinterland Of The Bight Of Biafra written by Dr. Frank Nwabueze Ihekwaba and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with History categories.

This book tells the story of the people of Igbo land at the middle of the nineteenth century, when Europe and Europeans held the dominant power over the lives and affairs of many peoples in Africa. This dominance, however, was never supposed to be total or absolute. Nevertheless, it managed to cast a constricting shadowwith its associated, if unhealthy, ambienceon the day-to-day lives of the people using the overwhelming military and economic power at its disposal at a time when Africans were either recovering from five hundred years of stupor brought on by its own dark ages (AD 11001600) or the shock and paralysis that followed the Moroccan (Mohamedan) and Spanish-mercenary-assisted mayhem and chaos of 1591 against the African kingdoms of West Africa. But the white man would soon lose most of his political and economic opportunities, and some of the absolute attributes he had mustered over the years the moment Britain and the other European races saw themselves as divinely appointed to right the wrongs of mankind. He would, from then on, render himself vulnerable to the tide of African enlightenment and progress, which was then building up everywhere, once the trade by which he had gained his ascendency over the other races of mankind began to decline. In addition, European ascendency witnessed an unusual reversal of luck when its residual strengths, recently boosted with the development of some newer types of weaponrythe Maxim machine gun in the UK (1883) and the Mauser Machine gun (1891) in Germanyweapons whose astonishing power and versatility had not previously been seen or tested in any battlefront, became more widely available to European and non-European troops. These, however, could not provide definitive answers to all the tactical and strategic imperatives of the developing new battlefront which European armies had sought. Nevertheless, these new weapons became celebrated after they were successfully used to hold the line and repel hordes of brave native fighters armed only with machetes and spears (South Africa) and bows and arrows (Kitcheners Sudan), enabling British forces to claim easy victories over the native forces; several Victoria Crosses would be won on both battlefronts by the British army. The success of the campaigns clearly went to the heads of the victorious army commanders. Thus were sown the seeds that would grow, leading to the idea of invincibility of the white man in the battlefield and the tragic events that preceded the First World War (19141918).

Contaminant Trends In The Southern California Bight

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Contaminant Trends In The Southern California Bight written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fishes categories.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time

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Author : Mark Haddon
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2004-05-18

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time written by Mark Haddon and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-18 with Fiction categories.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world. “Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.