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Chains of Gold; Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective
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BORGES, Marcelo

Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse immigrant communities in the Americas. It looks at transoceanic moves in the larger context of mig…

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Volume: 2
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978-90-47-42992-0
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African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present
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MORELLI, Ettore

What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d’Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa t…

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Volume: 56/5
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9789004726970
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A Global Radical Waterfront; The International Propaganda Committee of Transp…
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WEISS, Holger

This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers as well as their agitation and propaganda centres, the International Harbour Bureaus and the Internatio…

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Volume: 43
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9789004463288
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"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspec…
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BENSIMON, FabriceQUENTIN, DeluermozMOISAND,Jeanne

“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such …

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Volume: 29
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978-90-04-33546-2
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