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Portuguese Exploration to the West and the Formation of Brazil 1450-1800
Empires and Colonies
Author: Jonathan Hart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-02-06
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0745655181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing special attention to Europe, the book is careful to highlight the ambivalence and contradiction of that expansion. The book also illuminates connections between empires and colonies as a theme in history, concentrating on culture while also discussing the rich social, economic and political dimensions of the story. Furthermore, Empires and Colonies recognizes that whilst a study of the expansion of Europe is an important part of world history, it is not a history of the world per se. The focus on culture is used to assert that areas and peoples that lack great economic power at any given time also deserve attention. These alternative voices of slaves, indigenous peoples and critics of empire and colonization are an important and compelling element of the book. Empires and Colonies will be essential reading not only for students of imperial history, but also for anyone interested in the makings of our modern world.
Comparing Empires
Author: J. Hart
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-09-12
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1403980659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By consulting rare manuscripts, images, maps, and books, Jonathan Hart explores the relatively neglected empires of Portugal and the Netherlands to draw new conclusions about those of Spain, France, and England (as well as its successor the US). The book ranges from the Portuguese voyages to Africa to the Spanish-American War of 1898 and concentrates on the frictions and shifting rivalries among the empires.
The Roots of Caribbean Identity
Author: Peter A. Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-12-11
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0521727456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Roots of Caribbean Identity has as its central elements race, place and language. The book presents a movement from a European construction of Caribbean identity towards a more Caribbean construction. The ways in which the identity of the Caribbean region and the identities of the separate islands within the region were shaped are set out in a chronological sequence, starting from the time of the European encounters with the Amerindians and finishing at the end of the nineteenth century."(extrait de la 4ème de couv.).
On the Chocolate Trail
Author: Deborah Prinz
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1580234879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Take a delectable journey through the religious history of chocolate--a real treat! Explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in this gastronomic and historical adventure through cultures, countries, centuries and convictions. Rabbi Deborah Prinz draws from her world travels on the trail of chocolate to enchant chocolate lovers of all backgrounds as she unravels religious connections in the early chocolate trade and shows how Jewish and other religious values infuse chocolate today. With mouth-watering recipes, a glossary of chocolaty terms, tips for buying luscious, ethically produced chocolate, a list of sweet chocolate museums around the world and more, this book unwraps tasty facts such as: Some people--including French (Bayonne) chocolate makers--believe that Jews brought chocolate making to France. The bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, was poisoned because he prohibited local women from drinking chocolate during Mass. Although Quakers do not observe Easter, it was a Quaker-owned chocolate company--Fry's--that claimed to have created the first chocolate Easter egg in the United Kingdom. A born-again Christian businessman in the Midwest marketed his caramel chocolate bar as a "Noshie," after the Yiddish word for "snack." Chocolate Chanukah gelt may have developed from St. Nicholas customs. The Mayan "Book of Counsel" taught that gods created humans from chocolate and maize.
Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580
Contesting Empires
Author: J. Hart
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-02-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1403981329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery has even larger scope ranging from early Arab, African and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond to the legal abolition of slavery in the British empire, the United States and elsewhere in the Nineteenth-century.
Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History, 1500-1800
Author: João Capistrano de Abreu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the classics of Brazilian history is now available in English for the first time. A master of Brazil's ethnographic landscape, Joao Capistrano De Abreu provides a masterful blend of social history and vivid descriptions of dramatic events. The book opens Brazil's rich, fascinating past to the general reader and gives students access to a great turning point in historical scholarship.
A Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies, 1985-1989
Author: Lionel V. Loroña
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780810827028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fifth supplement to Arthur E. Gropp's A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies (1968), covering bibliographies published 1985-89, and those published earlier but not noted in previous supplements. For the first time, includes Caribbean bibliographies. The 1,867 citations are unannotated. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
