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Atlantic History - A Critical Appraisal - Bok - Inbunden

Atlantic History - A Critical Appraisal - Bok - Inbunden

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..

SEK 1180.00
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The Atlantic in World History - Bok av Karen Ordahl (Silver Professor of History Kupperman - Häftad

The Atlantic in World History - Bok av Karen Ordahl (Silver Professor of History Kupperman - Häftad

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.

SEK 486.00
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Atlantic Wars - From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution - Bok av Geoffrey (Professor of Early Modern History Plank - Inbunden

Atlantic Wars - From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution - Bok av Geoffrey (Professor of Early Modern History Plank - Inbunden

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.

SEK 566.00
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Boardwalk of Dreams - Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America - Bok av Bryant (Associate Professor of History Simon - Inbunden

Boardwalk of Dreams - Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America - Bok av Bryant (Associate Professor of History Simon - Inbunden

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..

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Culture Writing - Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World - Bok av Tim (Associate Professor of English Watson - Inbunden

Culture Writing - Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World - Bok av Tim (Associate Professor of English Watson - Inbunden

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.

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

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery - Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean - Bok av 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.

SEK 1586.00
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The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery - Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean - Bok av Daniel B. (Associate Professor of Hist

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery - Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean - Bok av 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.

SEK 490.00
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Viking Pirates and Christian Princes - Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic - Bok av Benjamin (Associate Professor of History and Medie

Viking Pirates and Christian Princes - Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic - Bok av 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.

SEK 2276.00
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Lecturing the Atlantic - Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870 - Bok av Tom F. (Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature Wright - In

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

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 - Bok av Albert N. (Professor of Economics Link - Inbunden

Public Goods, Public Gains - Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D - Bok av Albert N. (Professor of Economics Link - Inbunden

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.

SEK 926.00
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A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 - Bok av Daviken (Assistant Professor of Hi

A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 - Bok av 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.

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