Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants write by A. Stanziani. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century.
The Many-Headed Hydra
The Many-Headed Hydra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Many-Headed Hydra write by Peter Linebaugh. This book was released on 2013-09-03. The Many-Headed Hydra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the International Labor History Award Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world. When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. These workers crossed national, ethnic, and racial boundaries, as they circulated around the Atlantic world on trade ships and slave ships, from England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, and from the Americas back to Europe. Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas and Europe, the authors show how ordinary working people led dozens of rebellions on both sides of the North Atlantic. The rulers of the day called the multiethnic rebels a 'hydra' and brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history and recovered here, have much to teach us about our common humanity.
Final Passages
Final Passages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Final Passages write by Gregory E. O'Malley. This book was released on 2014. Final Passages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
Union Jacks
Union Jacks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Union Jacks write by Michael J. Bennett. This book was released on 2005-12-15. Union Jacks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.
The Making of Asian America
The Making of Asian America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Asian America write by Erika Lee. This book was released on 2015-09. The Making of Asian America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as ... historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today"--Jacket.
