Matt D Childs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3614402 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matt D Childs |
| PRENOMES | Matt D |
| SOBRENOME | Childs |
| ASSINATURA | CHILDS M D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
D ebating the H aitian R evolution and ‘K ongomania ’
Over the past 30 years, scholarship has shifted from viewing the Haitian Revolution as largely an extension of the French Revolution to understanding it as a revolt from the perspective of Africa and Africans. Four related factors contribute to explanations of this change in perspective. First, historians trained in pre-colonial Africa began to study slavery in the Americas. The second factor is the emergence of Atlantic History as a field of stu…
Insignificant Things
Journal Article Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Back Atlantic. Matthew Francis Rarey Get access Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Back Atlantic. Matthew Francis Rarey (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. xvi plus 288 pp. $26.95). Matt D Childs Matt D Childs University of South Carolina [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
The Roots and Routes of African Religious Beliefs in the Atlantic World
This article analyzes how historians have framed and studied the relationship between slavery and religion in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. In surveying the historiography, it becomes readily apparent that historians are far more interested in writing about Christianity among the enslaved than the religious histories of African-descended peoples' diverse belief systems. It has been more common for historians to …
Quinhentos anos de luta pela terra no Caribe
Resenha de:DUBOIS, Laurent; e TURITS, Richard Lee. Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 395 p
Nigeria’s Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the Americas
This chapter analyzes the impact of captives taken from the Bights of Benin and Biafra in forging diasporic cultures in the Americas. After a survey of theories used to study the role of the Yoruba and Igbo in the African Diaspora, the chapter examines the enslavement process in the Bights of Benin and Biafra that laid the foundations for diasporic cultures to be transferred to the Americas. In particular, a focus is placed on how enslaved Africa…
Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana
Any tourist in Havana is likely to visit at least one of a half dozen military forts that surround the city and guard its large harbor.Several of these date back to the sixteenth century, but most of them were either refortified, enlarged, or built anew during the second half of the eighteenth century.La Cabana, for example, constructed after the humiliating defeat by the British during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), became a small city and cost…
Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt
Beginning in 1760 and extending into 1761, Britain’s most profitable colony of Jamaica was rocked by an ongoing series of slave insurrections that nearly destroyed the Caribbean island from within. With the exception of scholars specializing in Jamaican, Caribbean, and Atlantic slavery, these insurrections have long been overlooked by historians of Early America for the perilous threat they posed to the British Empire. Instead, the narrative of a…
No God But Gain
Slave Culture
Dale T. Graden. Disease, Resistance, and Lies
Over the last twenty years, the study of the transatlantic slave trade has emerged as one of the most dynamic and innovative topics in the blossoming field of Atlantic history. Scholarly developments have moved in two complimentary currents. First, teams of scholars working in remarkable collaboration have constructed an open-source quantitative database that has revealed in extraordinary detail how Africa and Africans linked the Old World and th…
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
Copyright © 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur is one of the key delineators of the American national character, a man whose Letters from an American Farmer has a canonical status in early American literature. He is primarily known for his bucolic depiction of rural Pennsylvania, as the originator of the notion of America as a mostly harmonious melting pot of different ethnicities and reli…
Cuba
This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in Cuba. In the sixteenth-century, Africans crossed the Atlantic and accompanied Diego Velésquez and other Spanish conquistadors in the first expeditions sent to subjugate Cuba. Africans served in post-conquest Cuba as enslaved assistants to powerful military and political officials or as domestic servants. During the nineteenth-century heyday of plantation slavery, Cub…
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Over the last 20 years, Atlantic historiography has come to dominate the study of slavery in the colonial Americas. The central goal of the Atlantic paradigm is to push against national and imperial boundaries to demonstrate that most histories of the African diaspora need to be situated in multiple historical sources and contexts. While most scholars tend to endorse the approach, most only pay lip service and remain restricted to the primary sou…
Slave Culture
Acute labour shortages prevailed in almost all colonies that Europeans established in the New World. Given the high costs of transportation across the Atlantic and the reluctance of ordinary Europeans to risk their lives in strange lands, free migrants could not develop outposts and produce enough profits to sustain colonial enterprises. Europeans tried to remedy the shortfall by appropriating the labour of Native Americans outright, or by recrui…
O significado da ilha de Barbados para o Império Britânico no século XVII
.
The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa
Sweet Negotiations
Book Review| October 01 2008 Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados. Russell R. Menard. Matt D. Childs Matt D. Childs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 555–557. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.555 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site…
Morir o dominar
Cuban slave codes have attracted scholarly attention for more than two hundred years, dating back to Alexander von Humboldt’s writings in the early part of the nineteenth century. Historians have largely used the slave codes to illustrate specific arguments about different aspects of Cuban slavery, rather than making their formulation, debate, and implementation the central topics of study. For example, comparative historians such as Herbert Klei…
The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Essays that survey the impact of the slave trade dispersal of the Yoruba people
Expanding Perspectives on Race, Nation, and Culture in Cuban History
The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba. By Sherry Johnson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. 267. $55.00 cloth.)
Rituais de poder
.
Master-Slave Rituals of Power at a Gold Mine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This article examines the Sunday rituals of power that shaped relations between master and slaves at a gold mine in nineteenth-century Brazil. The English-owned St John del Rey Mining Company was the largest slaveholder in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais during the second half of the nineteenth century. In the 1860s the slave population at the mine numbered nearly 7000. The St John developed a detailed system of incentives to discipline it…
A Case of “Great Unstbleness”
(1998). A Case of “Great Unstbleness”: A British Slaveholder and Brazilian Abolition1. The Historian: Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 717-740
Sewing” Civilization
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Spanish Crown issued a Real Cédula (Royal Decree) authorizing the administration of public education in Cuba to an elite Creole group of twenty-seven large landholders known as the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País . The Real Cédula provided for the expansion and secularization of primary education in Cuba. The Sociedad embodied the elite planter Creole class whose influence had increased in Cuba ste…
An Historical Critique of the Emergence and Evolution of Ernesto Che Guevara'sFocoTheory
This article provides an analysis of Ernesto Che Guevara's theory of guerrilla warfare, thefoco. The numerous changes to the originalfocothesis, as presented inGuerrilla Warfare(1960), are examined in detail covering two dozen articles, speeches, essays, interviews and books authored by Guevara, Castro and Debray while stressing their relation to national and international politics. The author argues that there was an apparent discourse between C…
An Historical Critique of the Emergence and Evolution of Ernesto Che Guevara'sFocoTheory
This article provides an analysis of Ernesto Che Guevara's theory of guerrilla warfare, thefoco. The numerous changes to the originalfocothesis, as presented inGuerrilla Warfare(1960), are examined in detail covering two dozen articles, speeches, essays, interviews and books authored by Guevara, Castro and Debray while stressing their relation to national and international politics. The author argues that there was an apparent discourse between C…
Expanding Perspectives on Race, Nation, and Culture in Cuban History
The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba. By Sherry Johnson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. 267. $55.00 cloth.)
Master-Slave Rituals of Power at a Gold Mine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This article examines the Sunday rituals of power that shaped relations between master and slaves at a gold mine in nineteenth-century Brazil. The English-owned St John del Rey Mining Company was the largest slaveholder in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais during the second half of the nineteenth century. In the 1860s the slave population at the mine numbered nearly 7000. The St John developed a detailed system of incentives to discipline it…
A Case of “Great Unstbleness”
(1998). A Case of “Great Unstbleness”: A British Slaveholder and Brazilian Abolition1. The Historian: Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 717-740
The Roots and Routes of African Religious Beliefs in the Atlantic World
This article analyzes how historians have framed and studied the relationship between slavery and religion in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. In surveying the historiography, it becomes readily apparent that historians are far more interested in writing about Christianity among the enslaved than the religious histories of African-descended peoples' diverse belief systems. It has been more common for historians to …
Rituais de poder
.
Sewing” Civilization
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Spanish Crown issued a Real Cédula (Royal Decree) authorizing the administration of public education in Cuba to an elite Creole group of twenty-seven large landholders known as the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País . The Real Cédula provided for the expansion and secularization of primary education in Cuba. The Sociedad embodied the elite planter Creole class whose influence had increased in Cuba ste…
An Historical Critique of the Emergence and Evolution of Ernesto Che Guevara'sFocoTheory
This article provides an analysis of Ernesto Che Guevara's theory of guerrilla warfare, thefoco. The numerous changes to the originalfocothesis, as presented inGuerrilla Warfare(1960), are examined in detail covering two dozen articles, speeches, essays, interviews and books authored by Guevara, Castro and Debray while stressing their relation to national and international politics. The author argues that there was an apparent discourse between C…
Sewing” Civilization
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Spanish Crown issued a Real Cédula (Royal Decree) authorizing the administration of public education in Cuba to an elite Creole group of twenty-seven large landholders known as the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País . The Real Cédula provided for the expansion and secularization of primary education in Cuba. The Sociedad embodied the elite planter Creole class whose influence had increased in Cuba ste…
A Case of “Great Unstbleness”
(1998). A Case of “Great Unstbleness”: A British Slaveholder and Brazilian Abolition1. The Historian: Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 717-740
Master-Slave Rituals of Power at a Gold Mine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This article examines the Sunday rituals of power that shaped relations between master and slaves at a gold mine in nineteenth-century Brazil. The English-owned St John del Rey Mining Company was the largest slaveholder in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais during the second half of the nineteenth century. In the 1860s the slave population at the mine numbered nearly 7000. The St John developed a detailed system of incentives to discipline it…
Rituais de poder
.
Expanding Perspectives on Race, Nation, and Culture in Cuban History
The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba. By Sherry Johnson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. 267. $55.00 cloth.)
The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Essays that survey the impact of the slave trade dispersal of the Yoruba people
Morir o dominar
Cuban slave codes have attracted scholarly attention for more than two hundred years, dating back to Alexander von Humboldt’s writings in the early part of the nineteenth century. Historians have largely used the slave codes to illustrate specific arguments about different aspects of Cuban slavery, rather than making their formulation, debate, and implementation the central topics of study. For example, comparative historians such as Herbert Klei…
Sweet Negotiations
Book Review| October 01 2008 Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados. Russell R. Menard. Matt D. Childs Matt D. Childs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 555–557. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.555 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site…
The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa
Slave Culture
Acute labour shortages prevailed in almost all colonies that Europeans established in the New World. Given the high costs of transportation across the Atlantic and the reluctance of ordinary Europeans to risk their lives in strange lands, free migrants could not develop outposts and produce enough profits to sustain colonial enterprises. Europeans tried to remedy the shortfall by appropriating the labour of Native Americans outright, or by recrui…
O significado da ilha de Barbados para o Império Britânico no século XVII
.
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Over the last 20 years, Atlantic historiography has come to dominate the study of slavery in the colonial Americas. The central goal of the Atlantic paradigm is to push against national and imperial boundaries to demonstrate that most histories of the African diaspora need to be situated in multiple historical sources and contexts. While most scholars tend to endorse the approach, most only pay lip service and remain restricted to the primary sou…
Cuba
This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in Cuba. In the sixteenth-century, Africans crossed the Atlantic and accompanied Diego Velésquez and other Spanish conquistadors in the first expeditions sent to subjugate Cuba. Africans served in post-conquest Cuba as enslaved assistants to powerful military and political officials or as domestic servants. During the nineteenth-century heyday of plantation slavery, Cub…
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
Copyright © 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur is one of the key delineators of the American national character, a man whose Letters from an American Farmer has a canonical status in early American literature. He is primarily known for his bucolic depiction of rural Pennsylvania, as the originator of the notion of America as a mostly harmonious melting pot of different ethnicities and reli…
Slave Culture
Dale T. Graden. Disease, Resistance, and Lies
Over the last twenty years, the study of the transatlantic slave trade has emerged as one of the most dynamic and innovative topics in the blossoming field of Atlantic history. Scholarly developments have moved in two complimentary currents. First, teams of scholars working in remarkable collaboration have constructed an open-source quantitative database that has revealed in extraordinary detail how Africa and Africans linked the Old World and th…
No God But Gain
Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt
Beginning in 1760 and extending into 1761, Britain’s most profitable colony of Jamaica was rocked by an ongoing series of slave insurrections that nearly destroyed the Caribbean island from within. With the exception of scholars specializing in Jamaican, Caribbean, and Atlantic slavery, these insurrections have long been overlooked by historians of Early America for the perilous threat they posed to the British Empire. Instead, the narrative of a…
Nigeria’s Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the Americas
This chapter analyzes the impact of captives taken from the Bights of Benin and Biafra in forging diasporic cultures in the Americas. After a survey of theories used to study the role of the Yoruba and Igbo in the African Diaspora, the chapter examines the enslavement process in the Bights of Benin and Biafra that laid the foundations for diasporic cultures to be transferred to the Americas. In particular, a focus is placed on how enslaved Africa…
Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana
Any tourist in Havana is likely to visit at least one of a half dozen military forts that surround the city and guard its large harbor.Several of these date back to the sixteenth century, but most of them were either refortified, enlarged, or built anew during the second half of the eighteenth century.La Cabana, for example, constructed after the humiliating defeat by the British during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), became a small city and cost…
The Roots and Routes of African Religious Beliefs in the Atlantic World
This article analyzes how historians have framed and studied the relationship between slavery and religion in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. In surveying the historiography, it becomes readily apparent that historians are far more interested in writing about Christianity among the enslaved than the religious histories of African-descended peoples' diverse belief systems. It has been more common for historians to …
Quinhentos anos de luta pela terra no Caribe
Resenha de:DUBOIS, Laurent; e TURITS, Richard Lee. Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 395 p
D ebating the H aitian R evolution and ‘K ongomania ’
Over the past 30 years, scholarship has shifted from viewing the Haitian Revolution as largely an extension of the French Revolution to understanding it as a revolt from the perspective of Africa and Africans. Four related factors contribute to explanations of this change in perspective. First, historians trained in pre-colonial Africa began to study slavery in the Americas. The second factor is the emergence of Atlantic History as a field of stu…
Insignificant Things
Journal Article Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Back Atlantic. Matthew Francis Rarey Get access Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Back Atlantic. Matthew Francis Rarey (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. xvi plus 288 pp. $26.95). Matt D Childs Matt D Childs University of South Carolina [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
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