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“jason mcgraw”

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  • The Work of Recognition

    Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship

    by Jason McGraw ...
    This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country’s first general labor strikes in the 1910s. As Jason McGraw demonstrates, ending slavery fostered a new sense of citizenship, one shaped both by a model of universal rights and by the particular freedom struggles of African-descended people. Colombia’s Caribbean ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Is My Child Ready to Be Baptized?

    How to Ensure Your Child Understands Their Choice at Any Age

    by Pastor Jayson McGraw ...
    Far too many people, including ministers, are all too happy to hold a child’s baptism and go through the motions, but they are not concerned about whether the child truly understands what they are doing. Inspired by personal experience, Is My Child Ready to Be Baptized? presents an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand guide for new Christians of any age to know what it means to have a life in ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Is My Child Ready to Be Baptized?

    How to Ensure Your Child Understands Their Choice at Any Age

    by Pastor Jayson McGraw ...
    Narrated by Melanie Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    Far too many people, including ministers, are all too happy to hold a child’s baptism and go through the motions, but they are not concerned about whether the child truly understands what they are doing. Inspired by personal experience, Is My Child Ready to Be Baptized? presents an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand guide for new Christians of any age to know what it means to have a life in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Brazil on the Rise

    The Story of a Country Transformed

    by Larry Rohter ...
    In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest--and how a complex and vibrant people defy ... Read more

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  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

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  • Hotel Trópico

    Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980

    by Jerry Dávila ...
    In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Punishment in Paradise

    Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony

    by Peter M. Beattie ...
    Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil ... Read more

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  • The Barbary Pirates 15th-17th Centuries

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 213 - Elite
    For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean.They made forays far into the Atlantic, preying on the shipping and coastal settlements across Christian Europe, ranging from Greece to West Africa and the British Isles. In the absence of organized European navies they seldom faced serious ... Read more

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  • The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today. ... Read more

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  • Crossroads of Freedom

    Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910

    by Walter Fraga ...
    Translated by Mary Ann Mahony ...
    By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History—Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts ... Read more

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  • Slavery Unseen

    Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

    by Lamonte Aidoo ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key ... Read more

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