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In the windswept and cold Canadian Maritimes, slavery found fertile ground that produced multiple generations of enslaved people. This book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. In this important book, Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individual lives mentioned come from various points of origin, including Africa, the West Indies, the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, and the northern states, showcasing the remarkable range of the African experience in the Atlantic world. Whitfield makes it clear that these enslaved Black people had likes, dislikes, various personality traits, and different levels of physical, spiritual, and intellectual talent. In doing so, he affirms the notion that all of these slaves were unique individuals, despite the efforts of their owners and the wider Atlantic world to dehumanize and erase them. Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes helps us understand the challenges of race in our own time by telling a new story about Canadian history – one rooted in the difficulties of slavery and the actions taken to fight for dignity.
Slavery --- Enslaved persons --- Africa. --- African American history. --- Atlantic world. --- Black Canadian history. --- British North American history. --- Carolinas. --- Chesapeake. --- Maritimes. --- United States history. --- West Indies. --- biography. --- enslaved. --- slavery. --- slaves.
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The Seneca language belongs to the Northern Iroquoian branch of the Iroquoian language family, where its closest relatives are Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora. Seneca holds special typological interest because of its high degree of polysynthesis and fusion. It is historically important because of its central role in the Longhouse religion and its place in the pioneering linguistic work of the 19th century missionary Asher Wright. This grammatical description, which includes four extended texts in several genres, is the culminatin of Chafe's long term study of the language over half a century.
Seneca language --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation. --- Iroquoian languages --- Grammar. --- Seneca language. --- 19th century indigenous. --- 19th century language. --- 19th century linguistics. --- dying native languages. --- indian languages. --- indigenous languages. --- indigenous studies. --- iroquoian branch. --- iroquoian language. --- iroquoian. --- language studies. --- linguistics. --- native american languages. --- native american studies. --- native americans. --- north american history. --- phonology of seneca language. --- polysynthesis in iroquois language. --- seneca grammar. --- seneca iroquois. --- seneca language. --- seneca.
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Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. The conquest of the North American continent required violence, suffering, and bloodshed. It also required the creation of a national government strong enough to go to war against, and acquire territory from, its North American rivals. In A Hercules in the Cradle, Max M. Edling argues that the federal government's abilities to tax and to borrow money, developed in the early years of the republic, were critical to the young nation's ability to wage war and expand its territory. He traces the growth of this capacity from the time of the founding to the aftermath of the Civil War, including the funding of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. Edling maintains that the Founding Fathers clearly understood the connection between public finance and power: a well-managed public debt was a key part of every modern state. Creating a debt would always be a delicate and contentious matter in the American context, however, and statesmen of all persuasions tried to pay down the national debt in times of peace. A Hercules in the Cradle explores the origin and evolution of American public finance and shows how the nation's rise to great-power status in the nineteenth century rested on its ability to go into debt.
War --- Finance, Public --- Economic aspects --- History --- United States --- History, Military --- Economic aspects. --- north american history, historical research, revolutionary war, united states of america, western, independence, violence, wartime, territory, federal government, governing, politics, political, tax, money, economics, founding fathers, public finances, debt, 19th century, fiscal policy, administration, constitution, credit, james madison, president polk, presidency, abraham lincoln, military power.
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When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession. Resisting the assumption that September 11, 2001, constituted a historical rupture, Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terror-from the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. A history of the present crisis, Security and Terror also examines how that history has been registered and reckoned with in significant works of contemporary fiction and theory-in novels by Teju Cole, Mohsin Hamid, Junot Díaz, and Roberto Bolaño, and in the critical interventions of Jean Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and others. In this richly interdisciplinary inquiry, Jelly-Schapiro reveals how the erasure of colonial pasts enables the perpetual reproduction of colonial culture.
Imperialism. --- International relations and terrorism --- National security --- Terrorism --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature. --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. --- 1492. --- 9/11. --- afghanistan. --- american history. --- bahamas. --- capitalist. --- christopher columbus. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- colonization. --- crisis. --- cuba. --- erasure. --- explorer. --- genealogy. --- hispaniola. --- interdisciplinary. --- iraq. --- junot diaz. --- literature. --- moshin hamid. --- new world. --- north america. --- north american history. --- philosophy. --- politics. --- post colonial. --- roberto bolano. --- security. --- september 11th. --- settlers. --- teju cole. --- terror. --- united states history. --- us history. --- war on terror.
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Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction, of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfilment, of philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans and the alpine environment. The contributors consider mountains not as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers, and composers. Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel, Christof Hamann, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Höyng, Sean Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan, Johannes Türk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. Sean Ireton is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri. Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University.
Berg --- Berg. --- Deutsch. --- Film. --- Gebirge --- German literature --- German literature. --- Literatur. --- Literature and society --- Literature and society. --- Mountains in literature. --- Mountains in motion pictures. --- Philosophy of nature --- Philosophy of nature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Deutschland. --- Germany. --- History. --- Motion pictures --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Philosophy --- European history. --- German culture. --- Middle Ages. --- Mountains. --- North American history. --- aesthetic inspiration. --- alpine environment. --- cartology. --- climbing. --- cultural significance. --- cultural trends. --- culture. --- effects of mountains. --- existential fulfillment. --- geographical-geological significance. --- geography. --- medieval history. --- middle ages. --- migration. --- modern history. --- mountains. --- philosophical contemplation. --- philosophy. --- sociology. --- spiritual enlightenment. --- spread of ideas. --- topography. --- trade of ideas. --- trade. --- twenty-first century.
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Esoteric sciences --- History of civilization --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- 398.4 --- 930.86.01 --- 930.86.02 --- 398.4 Bovennatuurlijke verschijnselen. Geesten spoken. Bovenzinnelijke wereld. Bijgeloof --- Bovennatuurlijke verschijnselen. Geesten spoken. Bovenzinnelijke wereld. Bijgeloof --- 930.86.02 Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Nieuwe Tijd --- Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Nieuwe Tijd --- 930.86.01 Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- angels --- witchcraft --- werewolves --- flying witches --- raptures --- forbidden words --- suffering saints --- killing heretics --- European and North American history --- ghosts --- the Middle Ages and the early modern period --- the Renaissance --- the roaming dead
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere's oldest and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past.
Glacial epoch - North America. --- Glacial epoch --North America. --- North America - Antiquities. --- North America --Antiquities. --- Paleo-Indians - North America. --- Paleo-Indians --North America. --- Paleo-Indians --- Glacial epoch --- North America --- Antiquities. --- american archeology. --- anthropology. --- appearance of human being. --- archaeology. --- climates. --- colonization. --- colonized. --- controversy. --- earliest americans. --- early peopling. --- environments. --- first americans. --- genetics. --- geology. --- glaciers. --- global climates. --- humans. --- ice age north america. --- ice age. --- linguistics. --- new world. --- north america. --- north american history. --- physical anthropology. --- prehistory. --- remote places. --- retrospective. --- science. --- skeletal biology. --- Indiens du paléolithique --- Epoque glaciaire --- Amérique du Nord --- Antiquités
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This work is the first monograph which closely examines the role of the German minority in the American South during the Civil War. In a comparative analysis of German civic leaders, businessmen, militia officers and blockade runners in Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond, it reveals a German immigrant population which not only largely supported slavery, but was also heavily involved in fighting the war. A detailed appendix includes an extensive survey of primary and secondary sources, including tables listing the members of the all-German units in Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana, with
Germans --- Ethnology --- History --- United States --- Charleston (S.C.) --- Richmond (Va.) --- New Orleans (La.) --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Participation, German. --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- Civil War. --- History of Emigration to the USA. --- History of U.S. Slavery. --- North American History.
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