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Pages: 576
Authors: Edward Beasley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Daniel Rood
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows how, at a moment of crisis after the Age of Revolutions, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil fo
Racing the Street
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Robert J. Topinka
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-18 - Publisher: University of California Press

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Racing the Street traces the history of how race was used as a technology for gathering, assembling, and networking the early cosmopolitan city. Drawing on an a
Imperial Leather
Language: en
Pages: 544
Authors: Anne Mcclintock
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the centu
The Invention of Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Eric Hobsbawm
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-07-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolis