Ergebnis für "Dispossessed" in Geschichte

The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States-in concert with other Western nations-has gutted asylum protections for the world's most vulnerable.

In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death.

En la Europa del siglo XIII, los más nefastos presagios se habían hecho realidad. El agotamiento de las tierras de cultivo, la hambruna y los millones de seres humanos muertos a causa de las pestes, agotaron el modelo social caduco y que imperiosamente, necesitaba reformarse: El feudalism.