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The Empire of Necessity : Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World / Greg Grandin

By:

Grandin, Greg, , 1962-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Books , 2014Edition: First EditionDescription: 360 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780805094534

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.362 GRA

LOC classification:

HT1121 .G73 2013

Summary: Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	306.362 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		034142

Includes bibliographical references and index

Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.

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