Isbn: 9780801812521 - social control in slave plantation societies: a comparison of st. dominque and cuba (12 résultats)

Ex-college library copy. xiv, 166 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Dark purple cloth rubbed with some staining, flaking to spine's gilt stamping but lettering still legible, library shelf sticker affixed at front board's bottom left corner. Library stamps on all three text block edges; bar code sticker on front pastedown; library stamps on page iii, stamp on title page; pencil notation on copyright page; stamp at top margin of page 41; stamped and handwritten dates on rear pastedown library pocket with some associated ink smudging and soiling to opposing rear free endpaper verso. Small ink mark on page 5; light vertical crease to pages 13-14; scattered occurrences of pencil underlining erased within Chapters I and II and no other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise quite clean. Binding is firm. With Preface, Epilogue, Bibliography and Index. Features seven chapters titled as: "Methods and Overview," "The Problem of Survival of the Slave Population," "Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion," "Black Resistance and White Repression," "Protective Aspects of Slave Law," "Emancipation and the Status of the Free," and "Racism as an Instrument of Social and Political Domination." ISBN 0801812526.…

Etat : Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Etat : Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0801812526.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 166 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

Hardcover. Octavo, x, xii, xiii, 166 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine deep pictorial tan with brown lettering. Exterior has slight shelf wear including sunned spine, minor pencil to the rear few minor chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have very slight wear including sunned head/tail edges. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the edges. Personal copy of historian, Ira Berlin with his name to the front free end paper. Slight notations interiorly. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N, ND-N. 1388044. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 0801812526. Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. TIGHT SOUND READING COPY ONLY DUE TO mildew foxing and moisture rippling to upper right corner of both boards and pages; slight mustiness; book is now dry and all pages move easily and freely. otherwise average wear. Price-clipped dustjacket with minor overall dustsoiling; minor spine fade; slight wear to corners and edges. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described. No Signature.…

Etat : Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0801812526. …

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. xiii, 166pp. Maroon cloth with spine gilt. Spine titling rubbed, a near fine copy lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Pages excellent . Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> From a new approach to the uses of history and to the comparative study of slavery, Gwendolyn Hall shatters longstanding misconceptions about slave systems and the origins of racism in the Americas. Slave systems have traditionally been viewed as static or as evolving toward increasing humanitarianism; and they have been studied in isolation from each other. Slaves have been regarded as passive elements in society, and European colonizers as omnipotent. By comparing two flourishing sugar plantation systems-St. Domingue in the eighteenth century and Cuba in the nineteenth century-Professor Hall draws quite different conclu-sions. Sugar production required an unusually large labor force, and slaves in rural areas of these sugar colonies often outnumbered whites ten or twenty to one. Far from being passive, slaves were such a dynamic force in society that controlling them proved the colonizers' most severe problem. Policies toward the slave population, toward their religious conversion and education. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Near Fine. First edition. 166pp. Highlighting and underlining throughout thus very good in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight edgewear.

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