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Atlantic History - A Critical Appraisal - Bog - Hardback

Atlantic History - A Critical Appraisal - Bog - Hardback

The second volume in the OUP/National History Center series, Reinterpreting History, this book offers an incisive look at how interpretations of the Atlantic world have changed over time and from a variety of national perspectives. Atlantic history, which developed in the 1970s and has become very popular in the past several years, looks at the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the earlymodern/colonial period, rather than understanding..

DKK 1227.95
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The Atlantic in World History - Bog af Karen Ordahl (Silver Professor of History Kupperman - Paperback

The Atlantic in World History - Bog af Karen Ordahl (Silver Professor of History Kupperman - Paperback

The Atlantic in World History tells the story of the emergence of an integrated Atlantic world after 1492 and the way lives in all four continents were transformed. Novel products, especially foods, made lives better, but intensive labor systems, especially slavery, ruined many lives. Plantation agriculture and intensified trade fed industrial processes and led to modern economic and political regimes.

DKK 387.95
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Atlantic Wars - From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution - Bog af Geoffrey (Professor of Early Modern History Plank - Hardback

Atlantic Wars - From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution - Bog af Geoffrey (Professor of Early Modern History Plank - Hardback

Atlantic Wars is the first work to comprehensively explore how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. It examines how armed conflict affected how and where people lived, who they associated with, how they perceived each other, how they structured their societies, and whether they survived.

DKK 508.95
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Boardwalk of Dreams - Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America - Bog af Bryant (Associate Professor of History Simon - Hardback

Boardwalk of Dreams - Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America - Bog af Bryant (Associate Professor of History Simon - Hardback

During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journaliststo bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-five million visitors a year. Yet most stay..

DKK 1015.95
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Culture Writing - Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World - Bog af Tim (Associate Professor of English Watson - Hardback

Culture Writing - Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World - Bog af Tim (Associate Professor of English Watson - Hardback

Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. Watson analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology-Barbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, Edouard Glissant-and anthropologists who adopted literary forms-Laura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Levi-Strauss.

DKK 1261.95
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The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery - Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean - Bog af Daniel B. (Associate Professor of Hist

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery - Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean - Bog af Daniel B. (Associate Professor of Hist

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other \plantation experts\ to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit \tropical\ needs.

DKK 417.95
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The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery - Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean - Bog af Daniel B. (Associate Professor of Hist

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery - Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean - Bog af Daniel B. (Associate Professor of Hist

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other \plantation experts\ to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit \tropical\ needs.

DKK 1082.95
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Viking Pirates and Christian Princes - Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic - Bog af Benjamin (Associate Professor of History and Medie

Viking Pirates and Christian Princes - Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic - Bog af Benjamin (Associate Professor of History and Medie

This book studies two Viking families who appear in the records of the Atlantic littoral as pagan raiders and reinvent themselves as established Christian rulers. Their rise and transformation from the 10th to the 12th centuries highlights a period and people important for understanding the political, religious, and culture development of Europe in the High Middle Ages.

DKK 2192.95
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Lecturing the Atlantic - Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870 - Bog af Tom F. (Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature Wright - Ha

Lecturing the Atlantic - Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870 - Bog af Tom F. (Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature Wright - Ha

Lecturing the Atlantic is a reinterpretation of the \public lecture\ as one of the most important cultural forms of the nineteenth century Anglo-American world. Wright shows how key figures including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Makepeace Thackeray used the lecture hall to explore Anglo-American relations and themes of progress and national identity.

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Public Goods, Public Gains - Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D - Bog af Albert N. (Professor of Economics Link - Hardback

Public Goods, Public Gains - Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D - Bog af Albert N. (Professor of Economics Link - Hardback

In Public Goods, Public Gains, Link and Scott discuss and apply in case studies the systematic application of alternative evaluation methods to estimate the social benefits of publicly-financed research and development (R&D). The authors argue that economic theory should be the guiding criterion for any method of program evaluation because it focuses attention on the value and the opportunity costs of the program.

DKK 872.95
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A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 - Bog af Daviken (Assistant Professor of Hi

A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 - Bog af Daviken (Assistant Professor of Hi

Traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late 15th century to its fragmentation in the middle of the 17th century and situates it in relation to the expansion and crisis of Spanish imperial dominion in the Atlantic. This book reconstitutes the life of a community based on movement, maritime trade, and cultural hybridity.

DKK 517.95
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John Woolman and the Government of Christ - A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World - Bog af Jon R. (Honorary Researcher Kershner -

John Woolman and the Government of Christ - A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World - Bog af Jon R. (Honorary Researcher Kershner -

John Woolman, a tailor, was a lay Quaker leader in religiously charged 18th century America. Led by his radical apocalyptic beliefs, Woolman encouraged social reforms and critiqued the burgeoning trans-Atlantic economy, slavery, and British imperial conflicts. Kershner argues that instead of the militant apocalypticism commonly associated with radical Christian groups, Woolman utilized Quaker and mystical sources to craft a spiritualized \apocalypse of theheart.\

DKK 1266.95
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The Priest and the Prophetess - Abbe Ouviere, Romaine Riviere, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World - Bog af Terry (Associate Professor of Religion Re

The Priest and the Prophetess - Abbe Ouviere, Romaine Riviere, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World - Bog af Terry (Associate Professor of Religion Re

In 1791 Haïti, the free black coffee farmer and Catholic mystic Romaine-la-Prophétesse led a mass insurgency under revelatory instructions from the Virgin Mary, whom he claimed as his godmother. Aided by the French Catholic priest Abbé Ouivière, Romaine would go on to conquer two coastal cities. Through their intertwined stories, Terry Rey offers a major contribution to our understanding of the intersecting role of race and religion in therevolutionary Atlantic world.

DKK 1325.95
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The Story of Rufino - Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic - Bog af Joao Jose (Professor of History Reis - Hardback

The Story of Rufino - Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic - Bog af Joao Jose (Professor of History Reis - Hardback

A finalist for the Brazilian Book award and winner of the Casa de las América Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino José Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century, that sheds light on slavery and the slave trade, manumission, the complexities of slavery and freedom in Brazil, African freedpersons, and the resilience of ethnic and religious identities...

DKK 529.95
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