African Agency and Resistance If demand for slave-grown produce, social identity, and the Atlantic environment were three key factors shaping the traffic, the agency of Africans comprised a fourth major influence, but one which has received less attention from historians. ... Early Slaving Voyages With the key forces shaping the traffic briefly described, we can now turn to a short narrative of the slave trade. ...

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The second step and the one that cost the lives of so many African slaves were the crossing of the Atlantic or 'the middle passage'. ... The total number of slaves imported by the Portuguese is estimated at around 4.2 million- excluding those who met their fatal end during the middle passage- and their economy dramatically flourished during their time as the leader of transatlantic trade7. ...

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The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key themes, issues and problems To develop a broad historical understanding prose production at this time To develop literary critical skills of contextualization, close analysis, and argumentation To further develop your research skills and to prepare you for the research paper By the end of the module, students should be able to demonstrate: An ability to relate literary texts to relevant historical, social and cultural contexts An ability to identify central themes in the p...

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This report will examine Turkey's role in the EU's quest to secure access to energy resources by building additional passages of the Nabucco Gas Pipeline, and how this step forward will most likely affect Turkey's economic future and long-term status with the EU. ...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states and non state actors alike, that attempt to resist these often ill defined phenomena captured by the all embracing notion of 'globalisation'. For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate