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Roman slavery and Roman material culture / by George, Michele,editor.(CARDINAL)853335;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and indexes."Replete now with its own scholarly traditions and controversies, Roman slavery as a field of study is no longer limited to the economic sphere, but is recognized as a fundamental social institution with multiple implications for Roman society and culture. The essays in this collection explore how material culture - namely, art, architecture, and inscriptions - can illustrate Roman attitudes towards the institution of slavery and towards slaves themselves in ways that significantly augment conventional textual accounts. Providing the first interdisciplinary approach to the study of Roman slavery, the volume brings together diverse specialists in history, art history, and archaeology. The contributors engage with questions concerning the slave trade, manumission, slave education, containment and movement, and the use of slaves in the Roman army."--Publisher's website.Introduction / Michele George -- Greek or Latin? The owner's choice of names for vernae in Rome / Christer Bruun -- Slavery and Manumission in the Roman Elite: A Study of the Columbaria of the Volusii and the Statilii / Henrik Mouritsen -- Reading the 'Pages' of the Domus Caesaris: Pueri Delicati, Slave Education, and the Graffiti of the Palatine Paedagogium / Peter Keegan -- Geographies of Slave Containment and Movement / Sandra R. Joshel -- Working Models: Functional Art and Roman Conceptions of Slavery / Noel Lenski -- Cupid Punished: Reflections on a Roman Genre Scene / Michele George -- Slaves and Liberti in the Roman Army Natalie Bowmel Kampen.
Subjects: Slavery; Romans;
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Ancient Rome / by Mack, Lorrie.(CARDINAL)749463; Parrish, Margaret.(CARDINAL)561935; Shedden, Clare.; DK Publishing, Inc.(CARDINAL)317714;
The history, wars, society, and political life of ancient Rome and its vast empire and how it remains with us today.
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Jamaica / by Morris, Kerry-Ann.(CARDINAL)459009;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An overview of Jamaica, including information on its geography, history, government, social life and customs, and relationship with the United States.Accelerated Reader AR
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 9
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'Black but human' : slavery and visual art in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700 / by Fracchia, Carmen,author.(CARDINAL)354415;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index."'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens through which to explore the ways in which a certain visual representation of slavery both embodies and reproduces hegemonic visions of enslaved and liberated Africans, and at the same time provides material for critical and emancipatory practices by Afro-Hispanics themselves. The African presence in the Iberian Peninsula between the late fifteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century was as a result of the institutionalization of the local and transatlantic slave trades. In addition to the Moors, Berbers and Turks born as slaves, there were approximately two million enslaved people in the kingdoms of Castile, Aragon and Portugal. The 'Black but Human' topos that emerges from the African work songs and poems written by Afro-Hispanics encodes the multi-layered processes through which a black emancipatory subject emerges and a 'black nation' forges a collective resistance. It is visually articulated by Afro-Hispanic and Spanish artists in religious paintings and in the genres of self-portraiture and portraiture. This extraordinary imagery coexists with the stereotypical representations of African slaves and ex-slaves by Spanish sculptors, engravers, jewelers, and painters mainly in the religious visual form and by European draftsmen and miniaturists, in their landscape drawings and sketches for costume books."--Introduction -- 1. 'Black but Human' -- 2. What Is Human About Slavery? -- 3. Visual Culture and Slavery -- 4. Props and Costume -- 5. Commodification: 'Is There Any Caste Lower Than Blacks and Slaves From Guinea?' -- 6. The Image of Freedom: 'All Souls Are Of A Single Colour and They Are Wrought In The Same Workshop' -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Slavery in art; Enslaved persons; Black people; Art, Spanish.;
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Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world / by Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes I.,editor,writer of introduction,contributor.(CARDINAL)856130; Bindman, David,1940-contributor.(CARDINAL)281097; Brienen, Rebecca Parker,contributor.(CARDINAL)856128; Chieffo-Reidway, Toby,contributor.; Cummins, Tom,1949-contributor.(CARDINAL)855808; Fracchia, Carmen,contributor.(CARDINAL)354415; Parrish, Susan Scott,contributor.(CARDINAL)280855; Pointon, Marcia R.,contributor.(CARDINAL)157061; Quilley, Geoff,contributor.(CARDINAL)855767; Rosenthal, Angela,editor,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)284242; Schmidt-Linsenhoff, Viktoria,contributor.(CARDINAL)856127; Slauter, Eric Thomas,contributor.(CARDINAL)856129; Smalls, James,1958-contributor.(CARDINAL)824340; Weston, Helen,contributor.(CARDINAL)856126; Williams, Daryle,1967-contributor.(CARDINAL)856125; Ashford Colour Press Ltd,printer.; Cambridge University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)133285;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888"--
Subjects: Portraits.; Black people in art.; Slavery in art.; Slavery;
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Malawi in pictures / by De Capua, Sarah.(CARDINAL)647526;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Illustrated works.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Once upon a time in China [videorecording] / by Li, Jet,1963-; Tsui, Hark,1951-; Yuan, Biao.;
Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Rosamund Kwan.To prevent his kidnapped aunt from being forced into prostitution in the California gold fields, Huang Feihong (Jet Li) takes on the foreign forces running the slave trade.Canadian home video rating 14A.DVD, Dolby digital, mono.
Subjects: DVD-Video discs.; DVDs.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Martial arts films.;
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Nigeria / by Ismail, Yinka.(CARDINAL)663518;
Includes bibliographical references (page) and index.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Accelerated reader.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Sometimes an art : nine essays on history / by Bailyn, Bernard,author.(CARDINAL)124514;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Considering the slave trade : history and memory -- Context in history -- Three trends in modern history -- History and the creative imagination -- The losers -- Thomas Hutchinson in context : The ordeal revisited -- England's cultural provinces : Scotland and America (co-authored with John Clive) -- Peopling the peripheries -- The search for perfection : Atlantic dimensions."The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when outcomes were uncertain? How can we recover the uncertainties of the past, before the outcomes were known? What kind of imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire?" --From publisher's website.
Subjects: Historiography; History;
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Senegal in pictures / by Streissguth, Thomas,1958-(CARDINAL)370686;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-77) and index.Presents a photographic introduction to the land, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the African country of Senegal.Accelerated Reader AR
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