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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The teenage life and adventures of young José, who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-1930s, comprises the body of this film. José lives with his grandmother and is well aware of the French colonial presence. He gets into mischief, learns valuable lessons on living from an old former slave, drinks too much one time, and even sets fire to one of the run-down shanties. Regardless of his pranks, José never neglects his education.
4) Mamba
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exotic adventure set among ivory traders and military officers in Colonial East Africa, MAMBA stars Jean Hersholt as a British-born corrupt land-owner who battles a German officer over the honor of a his wife. But the romantic triangle is shattered when the indigenous population mounts an epic assault upon its oppressors.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1146
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs + 3 Blu-ray (approximately 601 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm).
Language
Multiple
Description
Sambizanga: Follows a young woman as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center, looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities--an incident that will ultimately help to ignite a national uprising.
Prisioneros de la tierra: Desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a jungle yerba maté plantation under the brutal foreman Köhner--a situation made tenser by the fact that both Köhner...
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