Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) rose from a community of "untouchables," to become a major figure in modern Indian history. Christophe Jaffrelot's biography reconsiders Dr. Ambedkar's life and thought and his unique combination of pragmatism and idealism. Establishing himself as a scholar, activist, journalist, and educator, Ambedkar ultimately found himself immersed in Indian politics and helped to draft the nation's constitution as law minister in Nehru's first cabinet. Ambedkar's ideas remain an inspiration to India's Dalit community.
The Galisteo Basin is an ancient seabed, site of volcanic upheaval. The fertile basin provided temporary hunting and farming grounds for wanderers, and then became the home of Pueblo people. This title presents the history of the Southern Tewa Pueblo Indian culture that rose, faltered, reasserted itself, and ultimately, perished in the Galisteo.
In 1857, the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the British Empire. Combining storytelling with research, this work narrates a tale at once tragic. It provides fresh evidence that the true causes of the mutiny were much more complex.
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "e;white gold."e; As Matthew Parker vividly chronicles in his sweeping history, the sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers-so much so that the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture.While sugar came to dictate imperial policy, for those on the ground the British West Indian empire presented a disturbing moral universe. Parker brilliantly interweaves the human stories of those since lost to history whose fortunes and fame rose and fell with sugar. Their industry drove the development of the North American mainland states, and with it a slave culture, as the plantation model was exported to the warm, southern states. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Barons freshly links the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which is still felt today.
De Havaianas Slim is het model waar vrouwen warm voor lopen. Het Slim model is door de smalle straps eleganter en vrouwelijker. Er zijn verschillende kleuren en variaties op het Slim model waardoor er altijd een paar voor jou bij zit. Materiaal Havaianas worden gemaakt van 100% rubber. Door de hoge kwaliteit van het materiaal en het ontwerp glij je niet uit je slippers, heb je geen zweetvoeten, zijn ze reukloos, behouden hun vorm en Havaianas worden niet heet in de zon. Onderhoud Was je Havaianas alleen met water. Laat ze niet weken in zout of kokend water. Vermijd hoge temperaturen en laat je Havaianas drogen in de schaduw. Zo blijven je Havaianas in top conditie en geniet je het langst van je slippers. Kleur: licht roze Voering: rubber Buitenkant: rubber Hakhoogte: 0,00 cm Zool: rubber Artikelkenmerken: havaianas, slippers, rubber, teenslippers
