Kyle Prochnow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 311579 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kyle Prochnow |
| NOMBRES | Kyle |
| APELLIDO | Prochnow |
| FIRMA | PROCHNOW K |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Cocoa, Credit, and Agro-Capitalism
This article explores the merchant capitalist firm John Holt & Co. and its diverse business interests on the Spanish-controlled island of Fernando Po in the early twentieth century. We show that this well-capitalized firm struggled to make money in cocoa production due to market and labor volatility, but used its position to undercut competitors, exploit small farmers by offering financial services like high-interest credit and mortgages, and dev…
Military Medicine and the Making of Race
Lockley’s Military Medicine and the Making of Race explores the ways in which medical observations of Black colonial soldiers shaped ideas about race in the nineteenth century. Directing his attention to the exceedingly well-documented West India Regiments, transatlantic companies of Black regulars in the British colonial army, Lockley combines methods of social history and the history of medicine with statistical analysis to probe evolving racia…
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896
Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century
Saving an extraordinary expense to the nation”
This article provides a comparative and transatlantic analysis of the forcible recruitment of Africans for the British West India Regiments. From the 1790s to the 1860s, West India Regiment officers plundered slave vessels for young African men whom they could conscript for military service. This process began with the purchase of thousands of enslaved Africans upon arrival in the British Caribbean and continued well beyond British slave-trade ab…
Contours of Change
Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 404–406
Envoys of Abolition
Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa." Slavery & Abolition, 42(2), pp. 406–407
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Contours of Change
Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905–1965." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 404–406
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896
Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century
Saving an extraordinary expense to the nation”
This article provides a comparative and transatlantic analysis of the forcible recruitment of Africans for the British West India Regiments. From the 1790s to the 1860s, West India Regiment officers plundered slave vessels for young African men whom they could conscript for military service. This process began with the purchase of thousands of enslaved Africans upon arrival in the British Caribbean and continued well beyond British slave-trade ab…
Cocoa, Credit, and Agro-Capitalism
This article explores the merchant capitalist firm John Holt & Co. and its diverse business interests on the Spanish-controlled island of Fernando Po in the early twentieth century. We show that this well-capitalized firm struggled to make money in cocoa production due to market and labor volatility, but used its position to undercut competitors, exploit small farmers by offering financial services like high-interest credit and mortgages, and dev…
Military Medicine and the Making of Race
Lockley’s Military Medicine and the Making of Race explores the ways in which medical observations of Black colonial soldiers shaped ideas about race in the nineteenth century. Directing his attention to the exceedingly well-documented West India Regiments, transatlantic companies of Black regulars in the British colonial army, Lockley combines methods of social history and the history of medicine with statistical analysis to probe evolving racia…
Envoys of Abolition
Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa." Slavery & Abolition, 42(2), pp. 406–407
History (5 obras) · Ancient history (4 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · African history and culture studies (3 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras)