Ruma Chopra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruma Chopra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruma |
| FAMILY NAME | Chopra |
| SIGNATURE | CHOPRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University, San Jose, California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
Africans in Exile
Almost Home
In spring 1796, after eight months of war in the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, most of the village of Trelawney Town—a community of about 550 runaway slaves and their descendants—surrendered. They had resisted black militia and British regulars but they were frightened by the savagery of the bloodhounds imported from Cuba to defeat them. They could not have imagined the outcome that followed. The Jamaican government, fearing that the Maroon War…
Janet Polasky. Revolutions without Borders
R. R. Palmer’s two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959), written almost sixty years ago, captures the late eighteenth century as an era of social unrest and political possibility, driven by the notion of fundamental human equality. In more abbreviated form, Janet Polasky locates the ideals of this era in the American Revolution, in the Enlightenment faith in reason, and in the ra…
Phillip Papas. Renegade Revolutionary
Journal Article Phillip Papas. Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee. Get access Phillip Papas. Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 403. $39.00. Ruma Chopra Ruma Chopra San Jose State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 1, February 2015, Pa…
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Phillip Papas. Renegade Revolutionary
Journal Article Phillip Papas. Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee. Get access Phillip Papas. Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 403. $39.00. Ruma Chopra Ruma Chopra San Jose State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 1, February 2015, Pa…
Janet Polasky. Revolutions without Borders
R. R. Palmer’s two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959), written almost sixty years ago, captures the late eighteenth century as an era of social unrest and political possibility, driven by the notion of fundamental human equality. In more abbreviated form, Janet Polasky locates the ideals of this era in the American Revolution, in the Enlightenment faith in reason, and in the ra…
Africans in Exile
Almost Home
In spring 1796, after eight months of war in the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, most of the village of Trelawney Town—a community of about 550 runaway slaves and their descendants—surrendered. They had resisted black militia and British regulars but they were frightened by the savagery of the bloodhounds imported from Cuba to defeat them. They could not have imagined the outcome that followed. The Jamaican government, fearing that the Maroon War…
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
History (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Atlantic World (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (2 works)