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  • The Archaeology of Slavery

    A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion

    Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun to investigate slavery in more diverse settings, the need for a broader interpretive framework is now ... Leer más

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  • Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean

    Exploring the Spaces in Between

    Series series Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
    Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates. Employing innovative research tools and integrating data from Dominica, St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Nevis, ... Leer más

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  • Dark Laboratory

    On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

    **A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.“Goffe’s ear is tuned to songs of resistance, to what it looks like to make life amid (and after) colonial subjugation…noble and necessary.”—The New York Times Book ... Leer más

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  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

    The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. ... Leer más

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  • Global Culture, Island Identity

    Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a ... Leer más

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  • Troubling Freedom

    Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

    In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the ... Leer más

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  • Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

    Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast.One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so ... Leer más

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  • The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

    From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent's mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially ... Leer más

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  • The Truth About Cape Slavery

    The Foundations of Colonial South Africa

    Part of this book was the basis of a submission to the King of the Netherlands and his advisors and the Minister of Culture as a challenge to the half-hearted apology for slavery that King Willem had made without reference to Cape Slavery and the Dutch Indian Ocean Slave Trade. ... Leer más

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  • Black Rice

    The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

    Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the eighteenth century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the black slaves ... Leer más

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  • Memory Lands

    King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

    Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
    Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

    Edición de Dan Hicks, Mary C. Beaudry ...
    The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, ... Leer más

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