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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 96,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-4047-1
EAN 9781469640471
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals-Indian sages, African slaves, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-5142-2
EAN 9781469651422
How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 96,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-3688-7
EAN 9781469636887
The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods.They found a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 79,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-4539-1
EAN 9781469645391
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade.Richly situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 96,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-4535-3
EAN 9781469645353
In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-3604-7
EAN 9781469636047
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G.Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s.Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates ...
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Kornbluh, Peter; LeoGrande, William M
Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 35,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-1763-3
EAN 9781469617633
Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba--beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo--this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. ...
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This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically what William thought to how Henry thought, and his convincing argument becomes a profound examination of Henry's mind and the way in which his work dramatized a particular philosophical ...
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Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology's theory of consciousness and existentialism's analyses of the lived world in relation to James's ...
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Strange Alloy
The Relation of Comedy to Tragedy in the Fiction of Henry James
Leyburn shows the evolution in the early works of James's power of relating comedy and tragedy and then analyzes some of the ways in which, as a mature artist, he characteristically revealed the interconnections. In nothing is Henry James more modern than in his finding comedy and tragedy inseparable. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- ...
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American Orientalism
The United States and the Middle East since 1945
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 436 páginas
PVP: 34,50 €
ISBN 978-0-8078-5898-1
EAN 9780807858981
Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium. After documenting the persistence of "orientalist" ...
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