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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Manuel Barcia (Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Leeds)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.327kg ISBN: 9780198754268ISBN 10: 0198754264 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 28 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps and List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Between Glory and Decay: West African Atlantic States in the Age of Revolution 2: Between Home and the Sea: The West African Trade to Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1843 3: Between Bozal and Ladino in Bahia and Cuba: The American Experience 4: West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Organization and Strategy 5: West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Military Operations and Weaponry Conclusion: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World Glossary BibliographyReviewsBarcia has done a fine job of matching up large and complex literatures and of plotting a novel path for understanding the interconnected nature of Yorubaland, Hausaland and the Americas in the nineteenth century. * Toby Green, English Historical Review * remarkable ... Barcia demonstrates great originality in using, in part, archival sources from Brazil and Cuba towrite African history. In so doing, he provides amodel for future scholarship. Sources for pre-twentieth century African history are relatively scarce, but Barcia shows thatwe can learn much by examining documents in the Americas ... move[s] us well beyond our decades-long obsession with comparisons between slavery in the US South and all other places [and opens] up new possibilities for future comparative histories and tell us much about slavery in two parts of the Americas that received tremendous numbers of enslaved Africans in the nineteenth century. * Walter Hawthorne, Atlantic Studies * serious and precise ... intelligently beyond the traditional scope of the monographic study, offers new and promising avenues for interconnected research ... [this book] aims to demonstrate that practices of slave resistance in the Americas were not traces of a survival , but rather a continuous adaptation which is an extension of their [African] history. * Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Politique africaine [translation] * impressively researched and argued ... [this book should] be welcomed as making new contributions to the field ... show[s] that slaves were active in assessing their own situation and were probably far more aware of what was going on internationally than anyone ever gave them credit for. * Tim Lockley, Slavery & Abolition * Barcia's book is a very valuable study in a new research field which can be recommended sincerely to colleagues and students. * Dr Ulrike Schmieder, Leibniz University of Hanover, Reviews in History * `Review from previous edition Barcia's book is a very valuable study in a new research field which can be recommended sincerely to colleagues and students.' Dr Ulrike Schmieder, Leibniz University of Hanover, Reviews in History `impressively researched and argued ... [this book should] be welcomed as making new contributions to the field ... show[s] that slaves were active in assessing their own situation and were probably far more aware of what was going on internationally than anyone ever gave them credit for.' Tim Lockley, Slavery & Abolition `serious and precise ... intelligently beyond the traditional scope of the monographic study, offers new and promising avenues for interconnected research ... [this book] aims to demonstrate that practices of slave resistance in the Americas were not traces of a survival , but rather a continuous adaptation which is an extension of their [African] history.' Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Politique africaine [translation] Review from previous edition Barcia's book is a very valuable study in a new research field which can be recommended sincerely to colleagues and students. Dr Ulrike Schmieder, Leibniz University of Hanover, Reviews in History impressively researched and argued ... [this book should] be welcomed as making new contributions to the field ... show[s] that slaves were active in assessing their own situation and were probably far more aware of what was going on internationally than anyone ever gave them credit for. Tim Lockley, Slavery & Abolition serious and precise ... intelligently beyond the traditional scope of the monographic study, offers new and promising avenues for interconnected research ... [this book] aims to demonstrate that practices of slave resistance in the Americas were not traces of a survival , but rather a continuous adaptation which is an extension of their [African] history. Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Politique africaine [translation] Author InformationManuel Barcia is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Leeds. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. He co-edits Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, and is the author of two books and several articles focusing on the history of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is also a frequent contributor to The Washington Spectator, The Huffington Post, The Independent, and Al Jazeera in English. In 2014 he was awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhume Prize in History, given every year to researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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