A remarkable study of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere. In 1823 Demerara (now Guyana), 60,000 black slaves rose up against their British masters and then were brutally put down. With gripping narrative, this book explores the conflicts within the society that gave the rebellion life, and the larger ...
At an unsettled moment in the academy, when there are seemingly few inspirational paradigms for connecting scholarship to action, "Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History" offers a heady mixture of reflexive theoretical essays and interpretative case studies that embrace the challenge of writing a social and cultural history of Latin ...
This volume describes one of the largest slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, when 60,000 slaves rose in revolt against their British masters in Demerara (now Guyana) in 1823. It examines the conflicts within the society that gave the rebellion life.
At an unsettled moment in the academy, when there are seemingly few inspirational paradigms for connecting scholarship to action, "Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History" offers a heady mixture of reflexive theoretical essays and interpretative case studies that embrace the challenge of writing a social and cultural history of Latin ...
First published in 1985 and now expanded to include a new chapter on women, the book explores the social, political, economic, and intellectual currents that shaped nineteenth-century Brazil and whose reverberations continue to be felt throughout contemporary Brazilian society.
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