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The Erotics of History - Donald L. Donham - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

The Erotics of History - Donald L. Donham - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free--as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans' race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement.

DKK 242.00
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Moving the Needle - Elisabeth S. Jacobs

Moving the Needle - Elisabeth S. Jacobs

\Combining expert qualitative craft with quantitative evidence, Moving the Needle provides ideas, insights, and answers regarding how and why high-pressure labor markets reduce joblessness--and how social policy can prolong those benefits even when the pressure abates.\--David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT \One of the few accounts of what happens when jobs are ample and wages are rising. The authors show us how tight labor markets create benefits for all workers, including those often..

DKK 256.95
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Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves - Awam Amkpa - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves - Awam Amkpa - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves mines multinational archives to illuminate the Atlantic reverberations of US mercantile projects, "free labor" experiments, and slaveholding in western Indian Ocean societies. Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa profile transnational human rights campaigns. They show how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world, revealing the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with liberal contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines populates the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East" in the age of empire. By extending the transnational framework of US slavery and abolition histories beyond the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections on the comparative workings of subaltern agency.

DKK 372.00
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Made in Britain - Stephen Tuffnell - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Made in Britain - Stephen Tuffnell - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

The United States was made in Britain. For over a hundred years following independence, a diverse and lively crowd of emigrant Americans left the United States for Britain. From Liverpool and London, they produced Atlantic capitalism and managed transfers of goods, culture, and capital that were integral to US nation-building. In British social clubs, emigrants forged relationships with elite Britons that were essential not only to tranquil transatlantic connections, but also to fighting southern slavery. As the United States descended into Civil War, emigrant Americans decisively shaped the Atlantic-wide battle for public opinion. Equally revered as informal ambassadors and feared as anti-republican contagions, these emigrants raised troubling questions about the relationship between nationhood, nationality, and foreign connection. Blending the histories of foreign relations, capitalism, nation-formation, and transnational connection, Stephen Tuffnell compellingly demonstrates that the United States’ struggle toward independent nationhood was entangled at every step with the world’s most powerful empire of the time. With deep research and vivid detail, Made in Britain uncovers this hidden story and presents a bold new perspective on nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic relations.

DKK 372.00
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The Bloody Flag - Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution - Niklas Frykman

The Bloody Flag - Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution - Niklas Frykman

\Adhering to the highest standards of world scholarship with sources in multiple languages buried in dispersed archives, Niklas Frykman balances brilliant story telling with impeccable analysis. During the cauldron of the revolutionary 1790s tens of thousands of sailors were caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They created a third option, namely, mutiny, and it evolved from armed riot to economic strike to insurrectionary challenge. The origins of the red flag, of the maritime rlic,..

DKK 322.95
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Squall Across the Atlantic - Stuart L. Bernath - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Squall Across the Atlantic - Stuart L. Bernath - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

DKK 311.00
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