Check order status

Become part of a community of book lovers from all over the world and get access to a whole bunch of benefits. Create an account for free

Austrian Post 5.49 € GLS courier 4.99 € DPD courier 4.49 € DPD point 3.49 €

Contact

How to shop

Help

My account

▸ Empty :-(

Working the Diaspora

Name: Working the Diaspora
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 04931767
Price: 106.39 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Frederick Knight
ISBN: 9780814748183

The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850

Frederick Knight

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04931767

Publishers NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, January 2010

From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the... Full description

Libristo code: 04931767

260 b

106.39 € VAT included

In stock at our supplier Shipping in 14-21 days

Delivery to Austria

Up to 30 days for returns

Customers also purchased

A proposito di donne e uomini. Il sesso, la famiglia, la società D. H. Lawrence

Paperback

21.39 €

Frans Lanting. Auge in Auge; . Frans Lanting

Hardback

37.69 €

Bouldering. Il manuale completo del sassista: tecnica, sicurezza, etica ed esplorazione Alberto Milani

Paperback

31.79 €

From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In "Working the Diaspora", Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the centre of current scholarly debates, "Working the Diaspora" challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labour, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.