Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “ruma chopra”
Skip side bar filters

  • Almost Home

    Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

    de Ruma Chopra ...
    The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all oddsAfter being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Unnatural Rebellion

    Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution

    de Ruma Chopra ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. They hoped that British military strength would crush the minority rebellion and free the colonies to renegotiate their return to ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Africans in Exile

    Mobility, Law, and Identity

    de Ruma Chopra ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Choosing Sides

    Loyalists in Revolutionary America

    de Ruma Chopra ...
    Series series American Controversies
    Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s ties to the British Empire. Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America shows us that America’s ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    de Adam Hochschild ...
    From the author of King Leopold's Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men—a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery—came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Liberty's Exiles

    American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

    de Maya Jasanoff ...
    **NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty's Exiles tells their story.Maya Jasanoff ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

    de Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Counter-Revolution of 1776

    Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

    de Gerald Horne ...
    How the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War: "Meticulous, thorough, fascinating, and thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Nova Scotia Black Experience

    de Bridglal Pachai ...
    The Nova Scotia Black Experience Through the Centuries is a comprehensive account of the African Nova Scotian struggle to build a vital community in the face of racial discrimination.Originally published in two volumes as Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land, this illustrated edition has been extensively updated and includes a new chapter tracing the experiences of Nova Scotia's black community ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

    Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

    de Trevor Burnard ...
    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.Thistlewood’s diary, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

    de Hilary McD. Beckles ...
    Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Black Ghost of Empire

    The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

    de Kris Manjapra ...
    If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system—instead of obliterating it.To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro