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Pep Digital Vol. 113: Betty & Veronica's Pet Projects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

Pep Digital Vol. 113: Betty & Veronica's Pet Projects

Betty, Veronica and the gang have had a lot of really cool pets over the years! Of course you know Betty's cat, Carmel, and you might know Archie's new dog, Vegas, but did you ever meet Reggie's dog, Runty? How about Dilton's pet dolphin?! There's over 150 pages of furry fun to be had in this book, so sit! Stay! Read!

Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of family members. Taken as a whole, these legal suits create a narrative against the institution of slavery. By analyzing 30 individual cases (1810–1881) from various parts of imperial Brazil, this book demonstrates the intricate strategies of argumentation that lawyers and plaintiffs conceived to prove the right to freedom of the parties involved and to convince the authorities of it. Enslaved per...

The Boundaries of Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 505

The Boundaries of Freedom

This carefully curated collection of essays opens the vibrant field of Brazilian slavery and abolition studies to English-language readers.

Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Slave Subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.

Over Land and Sea
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 117

Over Land and Sea

Human history has always been marked by the mobility of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is intrinsic to human nature, migration is not always voluntary: it can be the result of free choice, but it can also be forced, in different ways and to varying degrees. In this book, Massimo Livi-Bacci examines migrations past and present with reference to the degree of free choice behind them. The degree can be minimal, as when migration is compelled by war, natural disaster or the actions of a tyrant, but in other cases the decision to migrate can be fully voluntary and deliberate, as when indi...

Frontiers of Citizenship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Frontiers of Citizenship

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity. This book focuses on the interconnected histories of black and indigenous people on Brazil's Atlantic frontier, and makes a case for the frontier as a key space that defined the boundaries and limitations of Brazilian citizenship.

Beyond Geopolitics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Beyond Geopolitics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-15
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Even though it failed to prevent World War II, the League of Nations left a lasting legacy. This precedent-setting international organization created important institutions and initiatives in labor, economics, culture, science, and more, from the International Labor Organization to initiatives targeting education, taxation, nutrition, and other issues. Otherwise marginalized in global diplomacy, Latin Americans were involved, and often acted as leaders, in many League-related activities and made a number of positive contributions to the League. In this book foremost scholars from Europe and the Americas consider Latin American leadership and experiences in the League of Nations. Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.

Conditional Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Conditional Freedom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-12-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.

Islanders and Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Islanders and Empire

A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.

Nationalizing Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Nationalizing Nature

An insightful look at how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas.