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Black Experience and the Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion)

By Philip D. Morgan , Sean Hawkins

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
019926029X, 9780199260294, 9781423768043
LCC
DT32 .B54 2004
Open Library ID
OL22587534M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1720398 bytes)
Pages
432\433
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or traveled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion.

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