Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, this book combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. It demonstrates how even prisoners - in the United States and in other countries - were significantly better fed than American slaves.

Slaves --- Slavery --- African Americans --- Enslaved persons --- Social conditions. --- Eyewitness accounts --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Persons --- History. --- Southern States

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Dignity and Defiance is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens, of the young people who stood down a former dictator to take back control of their water, and of Bolivia's dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Featuring a substantial introduction, a conclusion, and introductions to each of the chapters, this well-crafted mix of storytelling and analysis is a rich portrait of people calling for global integration to be different than it has been: more fair and more just.

Globalization --- Investments, Foreign --- Economic aspects --- Bolivia --- Foreign economic relations. --- bolivia. --- bolivian history. --- border crossing. --- capitalism. --- coca fields. --- economics. --- enron. --- eyewitness accounts. --- fighting back. --- first person accounts. --- former dictator. --- global integration. --- globalization. --- humane development. --- international influences. --- international monetary fund. --- neoliberalism. --- oil companies. --- oil spill. --- political massacres. --- politics. --- rebellion. --- shell. --- social justice. --- south america. --- south american history. --- world bank.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colonial administrators in Ireland that a plot was afoot to root out and destroy Ireland's English and Protestant population. Within days English colonists in Ireland believed that a widespread massacre of Protestant settlers was taking place. Desperate for aid, they began to canvass their colleagues in England for help, claiming that they were surrounded by an evil popish menace bent on destroying their community. Soon sworn statements, later called the 1641 depositions, confirmed their fears (despite little by way of eye-witness testimony). In later years, Protestant commentators could point to the 1641 rebellion as proof of Catholic barbarity and perfidy. However, as the author demonstrates, despite some of the outrageous claims made in the depositions, the myth of 1641 became more important than the reality. The aim of this book is to investigate how the rebellion broke out and whether there was a meaning in the violence which ensued. It also seeks to understand how the English administration in Ireland portrayed these events to the wider world, and to examine whether and how far their claims were justified. Did they deliberately construct a narrative of death and destruction that belied what really happened? An obvious, if overlooked, context is that of the Atlantic world; and particular questions asked are whether the English colonists drew upon similar cultural frameworks to describe atrocities in the Americas; how this shaped the portrayal of the 1641 rebellion in contemporary pamphlets; and the effect that this had on the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms between England, Ireland and Scotland. Dr Eamon Darcy is a research assistant in the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College, Dublin.

Civil war --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- Revolutions --- War --- Ireland --- History --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. --- 1641 Depositions. --- 1641. --- British Administration. --- English Colonists. --- French society. --- Ireland. --- Irish Rebellion. --- Irish dissidents. --- Irish history. --- Massacre. --- Myth. --- Owen Connelly. --- Popish Menace. --- Protestant Population. --- Reality. --- Violence. --- Wars of the Three Kingdoms. --- eyewitness accounts. --- political contacts. --- political materialities. --- post-war. --- social upheavals.