Böcker i Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture-serien

Previously available only in a four-volume French edition, these materials treat a wide range of topics, including the slave economy, management and socialization of the labor force, the role of free blacks in society, the lives led by the plantation owners, and, significantly, black-white relations before, during, and after emancipation.

Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of "blacknessand discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts-from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations.

It is a confrontation, he suggests, that was enacted thousands of times across the slaveholding Americas as white men strained to suppress black culture and blacks resisted- determined to preserve their heritage and beliefs.

Anyone interested in the problems of underdeveloped nations, labor control, and the after-effects of colonialism and imperialism will appreciate the significance of this work.

Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralistmodel of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting potor "pure pluralistmodel.

The book will be of interest not only to experts on coffee economies but to students and scholars of Latin America, labor history, the economics ofdevelopment, and political economy.

This volume is intended to provide some of the essential facts underlying both the unity and diversity of Caribbean scieties, and thus to contirbute to an understanding of the region's increasing importance in the modern world.

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-Puerto Rican understanding, and recounting the mythic adventures of McLuhanaima, "the world's first Brazilianist,as he travels through the exotic land he has chosen for definitive research.