African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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362 p, Contents: Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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462 p., On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.
Peret,Benjamin (Author), Ponge,Robert (Author), and Maestri Filho,Mario Jose (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Porto Alegre, RS: UFRGS Editora
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
199 p, Contents: Benjamin Péret: surrealista e historiador de Palmares / Robert Ponge -- Benjamin Péret: um olhar heterodoxo sobre Palmares / Mário Maestri -- Nota sobre "Que foi o quilombo de Palmares?" de Benjamin Péret -- Que foi o quilombo de Palmares / Benjamin Péret
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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399 p, Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmié argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them.
