The Empire Of Necessity
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The Empire Of Necessity
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Author : Greg Grandin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-05-01
The Empire Of Necessity written by Greg Grandin and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with History categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 Discover the story of a real-life Captain Ahab of the slave trade, in a landmark book by one of today’s most original and highly acclaimed historians One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver. He spent all day on the ship, sharing food and water, yet failed to see that the slaves, having slaughtered most of the crew, were now their own masters. Later, when Delano realized the deception, he chased the ship down, responding with barbaric violence. Drawing on never-before-consulted records on four continents, Greg Grandin follows this group of courageous slaves and their persecutor from the horrors of the Middle Passage to their explosive confrontation. The Empire of Necessity is a gripping account of obsessive mania, imperial exploitation, and lost ideals, capturing the epic clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was shaping the so-called New World and the Age of Revolution.
The Empire Of Necessity
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Author : Greg Grandin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-14
The Empire Of Necessity written by Greg Grandin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with History categories.
Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Moving Subjects
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Author : Tony Ballantyne
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2009
Moving Subjects written by Tony Ballantyne and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Investigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire
The Evil Necessity
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Author : DENVER. BRUNSMAN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-06-28
The Evil Necessity written by DENVER. BRUNSMAN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-28 with History categories.
A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American Histories Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Slaves To Rome
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Author : Myles Lavan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-14
Slaves To Rome written by Myles Lavan 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 2013-02-14 with History categories.
This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their authority over, and responsibilities to, the subject population of the provinces. It traces the relative importance of these different models for the imperial project across almost three centuries of Latin literature, from the middle of the first century BCE to the beginning of the third century CE.
Empire Of Capital
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Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2005-01-17
Empire Of Capital written by Ellen Meiksins Wood and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-17 with Business & Economics categories.
What does imperialism mean in the absence of colonial conquest and imperial rule?
Naked Empire
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Author : Terry Goodkind
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-29
Naked Empire written by Terry Goodkind and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-29 with Fiction categories.
The Sword of Truth series follows Richard Cypher, a young woodsman intent on tracking down his father's murderer. His quest will take him far from home, embroiling him in an ancient war, three-millennia past, that is about to re-ignite with world-shattering violence. Time is running out. The Imperial Order has D'Hara under siege, Wizard's Keep is threatened, and Richard Rahl has been poisoned. There is an antidote, but it comes at a high price. Richard has been poisoned by an agent of the Bandakar, a people protected from the ravages of the Imperial Order by an ancient magical barrier... until the war Richard unleashed destroyed it. The price they demand is salvation from annihilation. With the shadow of death looming, his powers fading and Bandakar crumbling before the Imperial Order, Richard must lead a desperate people to victory.
Pirates Of Empire
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Author : Stefan Eklöf Amirell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Pirates Of Empire written by Stefan Eklöf Amirell 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 2019-08-29 with History categories.
This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.