Colonial Inventions

Author : Amar Wahab
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443819999
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Inventions written by Amar Wahab and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolonial studies, by connecting the visual representation and indexing of colonial landscapes and peoples with the making of colonial power. Emphasis is placed on three pivotal image catalogues which span the pre and post emancipation periods and which connect the projects of British slavery and indentureship. The book unearths sketches, paintings, lithographs and engravings and analyzes them as central to the iconic framing and disciplining of colonized subjects, tropical nature and the plantation landscape. Focusing on the image works of British travellers Richard Bridgens and Charles Kingsley and Creole artist, Michel Jean Cazabon, the chapters consider how an aesthetic logic was not only illustrative but constitutive of racialized and gendered scripts of colonial landscapes, nature and identity. While these various strands of aesthetic reasoning reveal a seemingly coherent operation of colonial power, they also register the very ambiguity of these disciplinary projects in moments of uncertainty regarding the amelioration of African slavery, the emancipation of slavery, and the highly contested project of Indian indentureship in the Caribbean. The book reflects the dynamic instability of colonial inventive projects manifest in a period of experimental and troubled British rule that potentially frustrates any attempt to recover the truth of Caribbean colonial reality.

Author : Charlie Samuel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781282219250
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventors and Inventions in Colonial America written by Charlie Samuel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Augustus Mowry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Inventions and Inventors written by William Augustus Mowry and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521437738
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Tradition written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.

Author : Arthur May Mowry
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Inventions and Inventors written by Arthur May Mowry and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Inventions and Inventors" by Arthur May Mowry and William A. Mowry is a comprehensive exploration of the ingenuity and innovation that have shaped American history. This book introduces readers to the remarkable inventions and inventors who have left their mark on various industries. From the light bulb to the telephone, the authors celebrate the spirit of American creativity and entrepreneurship, making this book an informative and inspiring read for those interested in the history of innovation.

Author : Bonnie K. Holcomb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Ethiopia written by Bonnie K. Holcomb and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert W. Smith
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 1420632345
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spotlight on America written by Robert W. Smith and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, working with maps, and more. Most titles include a Readers Theater.

Author : Robert J. Steinfeld
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616394
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Free Labor written by Robert J. Steinfeld and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, but it was not until the nineteenth century that indentured servitude came to be regarded as similar to slavery.

Author : Lina del Castillo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496205855
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting a Republic for the World written by Lina del Castillo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included a lack of effective geographic knowledge, blockages to a circulatory political economy, existing patterns of land tenure, entrenched inequalities, and ignorance among popular sectors. At times collaboratively, and at times combatively, Colombian leaders tackled these “colonial” legacies to forge a republic in a hostile world of monarchies and empires. The highly partisan, yet uniformly republican public sphere crafted a vision of a virtuous nation that, unlike the United States, had already abolished slavery and included Indians as citizens. By the mid-nineteenth century, as suffrage expanded to all males over twenty-one, Colombian elites nevertheless tinkered with territorial divisions and devised new constitutions to manage the alleged “colonial legacy” affecting the minds of popular voters. The book explores how the struggle to be at the vanguard of radical republican equality fomented innovative contributions to social sciences, including geography, cartography, political ethnography, constitutional science, history, and the calculation of equity through land reform. Paradoxically, these efforts created a kind of legal pluralism reminiscent of the Spanish monarchy during the “colonial” period.

Author : William Ernest Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.DP/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Inventions written by William Ernest Smith and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: