Author: John Camden HottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Original Lists of Persons of Quality
Author: John Camden HottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Original Lists of Persons of Quality
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368820982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Record of the Man, Needles (Nedels) and Hambleton Families...1495-1876
Author: Samuel Hambleton NeedlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Numbered Lives
Author: Jacqueline WernimontPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262350181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book, Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist media history that maps connections not only between past and present-day “quantum media” but between media tracking and long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues, counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin—one that has always been used to render statistics of life and death more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our digital culture and inheritance.
The Dead Secret
Author: Wilkie CollinsThe pearl fountain, and other fairy tales, by B. and J. Kavanagh
Author: Bridget KavanaghA New World of Labor
Author: Simon P. NewmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the New World. By the early seventeenth century, more than half a million enslaved men, women, and children had been transported to the island. In A New World of Labor, Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor. Free and bound labor were defined and experienced by Britons and Africans across the British Atlantic world in quite different ways. Connecting social developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast, Newman demonstrates that the brutal white servant regime, rather than the West African institution of slavery, provided the most significant foundation for the violent system of racialized black slavery that developed in Barbados. Class as much as race informed the creation of plantation slavery in Barbados and throughout British America. Enslaved Africans in Barbados were deployed in radically new ways in order to cultivate, process, and manufacture sugar on single, integrated plantations. This Barbadian system informed the development of racial slavery on Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, as well as in South Carolina and then the Deep South of mainland British North America. Drawing on British and West African precedents, and then radically reshaping them, Barbados planters invented a new world of labor.
Joseph and His Brethern. A Dramatic Poem
Author: Algernon Charles SwinburnePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385510244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
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