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The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Yet even this reckoning...
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Economic history involves the study of economies or economic phenomena rooted in the past. Economic history analysis is undertaken using a number of historical methods, statistical methods and require the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions. Topics include financial and business history, which overlap with areas of social history such as demography and labor history. Many early books on economic history described...
4) Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Healing, Health, And Power On Southern Slave Plantations
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Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as "creoles" who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas facilitates a cross-disciplinary,...
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IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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This study was carried out in cocoa-based agroforestry systems in Mbam and Inoubou department, Center Region, Cameroon. The study aimed at assessing the plant species diversity, ecological services, and carbon sequestration potentials of diverse trees associated in cocoa agroforestry systems. Twenty-seven sampling plots of 100 × 20 m were established in cocoa agroforestry systems in three villages. Our results registered the occurrence of 238 plant...
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IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Increasing global human populations and wealth have resulted in increased demands for animal protein and widespread use of confined animal feeding operations to meet added animal protein consumptive demands. Disposal of animal wastes from these operations can be ecologically and environmentally problematic (Kellogg et al., 2000; Roberts et al., 2004; Shober & Sims, 2003). Poultry production is an important source of this...
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The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A one hour, unblinking and fact-filled look at the real history of slavery, as revealed in Roots. This documentary features leading historians unpacking the history behind Africa at the time of Kunte Kinte and the Middle Passage, slavery on plantations.
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Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Tells the stories of orphaned baby elephants living at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center (TECC) due to the loss of their mothers and habitats. They discover ways to cope with trauma while living with their adopted mother elephants at the nursery, and learn to communicate with their "mahouts" - lifetime trainers and companions. The film goes on to chronicle the experiences of adult "working" elephants and their mahouts, dragging logs in the teakwood...
9) Cane Fire
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Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island’s history — and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it—through four generations of director...
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