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Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz by George Baca 9780807859889
Booksplease Price: $51.08Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of ""Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in... -
Caribbean Transformations by Sidney W. Mintz
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to... -
Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations by Sidney W. Mintz
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $28.81As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the... -
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz 9780140092332
Booksplease Price: $15.88A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed... -
Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History by Sidney W. Mintz 9780393007312
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.05Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his... -
Sugar: A Bittersweet History Elizabeth Abbott 9780715655801
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Sugar was once the most powerful commodity on earth. It shaped world affairs, influenced the economic policies of nations, drove international trade and left a legacy of suffering that still... -
Slavery, Colonialism and Racism by Sidney Wilfred Mintz 9780393092349
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University.Book InformationISBN... -
Japanese Colonialism In Taiwan: Land Tenure, Development, And Dependency, 1895-1945 Chih-ming Ka 9780813336374
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Exploring the dynamics of development and dependency, this book traces the experience of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Chih-ming Ka shows how, unlike in other sugar-producing colonies, Taiwan... -
Caribbean Contours by Sidney Wilfred Mintz
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $26.92In 'Caribbean Contours' eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative... -
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America by William Roseberry
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $26.92A distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examines the production, processing, and marketing of coffee. Using this important commodity as a common... -
Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion by Judy Bieber 9780860785064
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $144.03The emergence of a widespread 'plantation complex', in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital, was a phenomenon of the New World. This book shows... -
Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance by Nancy L. Westrate 9780807854372
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $45.42Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern... -
The Plantation by Edgar Tristram Thompson 9781570039409
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $95.81A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, ""The Plantation,"" broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system... -
The Plantation by Edgar Tristram Thompson 9781570039416
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, ""The Plantation,"" broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system... -
Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward John W. Chapman 9780202361345
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.73This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students, colleagues, and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was... -
Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 9780312295219
RRP: $154.79Booksplease Price: $144.63Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of... -
Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 9780312295202
Booksplease Price: $144.63Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of... -
Black Studies in the University: A Symposium Armstead L. Robinson 9780300278989
Booksplease Price: $26.11A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today's students and scholars In a landmark 1968 conference at Yale University, students, faculty, and community activists helped... -
Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City by George Baca 9780813547527
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.00How have civil rights transformed racial politics in America? Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, Conjuring Crisis counters the myth of steady race progress by... -
Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture by E. N. Anderson 9780814770146
Booksplease Price: $117.22Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats... -
Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture by E. N. Anderson 9780814760062
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Illuminates the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee?... -
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Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 by Eileen Suarez Findlay 9780822323754 [USED COPY]
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $1.59Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of... -
The World of Soy by Christine M. Du Bois
Booksplease Price: $56.72As the most ecologically efficient and economical source of complete protein in human food, soy is gradually attracting more use in the American diet for its nutritional and financial value. Derived... -
Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 by Eileen Suarez Findlay
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of... -
Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry by Robert William Thurston 9781442214415
Booksplease Price: $49.16Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from... -
Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry by Robert William Thurston
Booksplease Price: $146.30Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from... -
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca J. Scott 9780674416918
Booksplease Price: $29.48Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the... -
Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War by David H. Price
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to advance the war effort. The range of...