Faces of Perfect Ebony - Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Molineux is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Klappentext Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. In her exploration of this emerging black presence, Molineux assembles evidence ranging from shop signs, tea trays, trading cards, board games, and playing cards to song ballads and William Hogarth's graphic satires. Zusammenfassung Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. In her exploration of this emerging black presence, Molineux assembles evidence ranging from shop signs, tea trays, trading cards, board games, and playing cards to song ballads and William Hogarth’s graphic satires.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Molineux, Molineux Catherine
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2012
• EAN: 9780674050082
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05008-2
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies; Harvard Historical Studies (Ha; Harvard Historical Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; European History, British Empire, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Business & management, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Slavery and abolition of slavery