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The Final Passage
Author | : Caryl Phillips |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780525562818 |
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From the British-West Indian novelist who is rapidly emerging as the bard of the African diaspora comes a haunting work about “the final passage”—the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities of England. In her village of St. Patrick’s, Leila Preston has no prospects, a young son, and a husband, Michael, who seems to prefer the company of his mistress. So when her ailing mother travels to England for medical care, Leila decides to follow her. As Caryl Phillips follows the Prestons’ outward voyage—and their bewildered attempt to find a home in a country whose rooming houses post signs announcing “No vacancies for coloureds”—he produces a tragicomic portrait of hope and dislocation. The Final Passage is a novel rich in language, acute in its grasp of character, and unforgettable in its vision of the colonial legacy. “Like Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, Phillips writes of times so heady and chaotic and of characters so compelling that time moves as if guided by the moon and dreams.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Final Passages
Author | : Gregory E. O'Malley |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781469615356 |
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This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Not only did this trade increase death rates and the social and cultural isolation of Africans; it also fed the expansion of British slavery and trafficking of captives to foreign empires, contributing to Britain's preeminence in the transatlantic slave trade by the mid-eighteenth century. The pursuit of profits from exploiting enslaved people as commodities facilitated exchanges across borders, loosening mercantile restrictions and expanding capitalist networks. Drawing on a database of over seven thousand intercolonial slave trading voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, O'Malley identifies and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade. He argues that such voyages were a crucial component in the development of slavery in the Caribbean and North America and that trade in the unfree led to experimentation with free trade between empires.
The Last Passage
Author | : Donald Heinz |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780195116434 |
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Heinz offers wise answers to questions about death, urging readers to "recover a death of [their] own" and to view the final years as a fulfillment, a "last career".
The City of Mirrors
Author | : Justin Cronin |
Publsiher | : Doubleday Canada |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780385669566 |
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The wait is finally over for the third and final installment in The Passage trilogy, called "a The Stand-meets-The Road journey" by Entertainment Weekly. In the wake of the battle against The Twelve, Amy and her friends have gone in different directions. Peter has joined the settlement at Kerrville, Texas, ascending in its ranks despite his ambivalence about its ideals. Alicia has ventured into enemy territory, half-mad and on the hunt for the viral called Zero, who speaks to her in dreams. Amy has vanished without a trace. With The Twelve destroyed, the citizens of Kerrville are moving on with life, settling outside the city limits, certain that at last the world is safe enough. But the gates of Kerrville will soon shudder with the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and Amy--the Girl from Nowhere, the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years--will once more join her friends to face down the demon who has torn their world apart . . . and to at last confront their destinies.
Proposed Balanced Budget tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : PURD:32754078036781 |
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On Our Way
Author | : Robert Kastenbaum |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2004-05-20 |
Genre | : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS |
ISBN | : 9780520218802 |
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A profound look at how death and dying is understood, negotiated, and experienced by different cultures.
Annals of the Congress of the United States
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : UOM:39015068540056 |
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