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Slavery's Exiles

The Story of the American Maroons

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

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Slavery's Exiles

The Story of the American Maroons

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.

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NYU Press

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0814760287

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9780814760284

Modelling Language

By: Sylviane Cardey

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Modelling Language

By: Sylviane Cardey

In response to the need for reliable results from natural language processing, this book presents an original way of decomposing a language(s) in a microscopic manner by means of intra/inter‑language norms and divergences, going progressively from languages as systems to the linguistic, mathematical and computational models, which being based on a constructive approach are inherently traceable. Languages are described with their elements aggregating or repelling each other to form viable interrelated micro‑systems. The abstract model, which contrary to the current state of the art works in intension, is exploitable for all sorts of applications where only the elements which are useful are assembled in the micro‑systems needed to solve the problem in hand. Numerous definitions, schemata and examples involving many languages make the book accessible to students as well as academics and industrial researchers looking for new theories and methodologies for representations and problem solving wherever language and quality meet.

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208

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027272085

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9789027272089

Servants of Allah

African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

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Servants of Allah

African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

Despite the explosion in work on African American and religious history, little is known about Black Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale. Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslim slaves, following them from Africa to the Americas. It details how, even while enslaved many Black Muslims managed to follow most of the precepts of their religion. Literate, urban, and well traveled, Black Muslims drew on their organization and the strength of their beliefs to play a major part in the most well known slave uprisings. Though Islam did not survive in the Americas in its orthodox form, its mark can be found in certain religions, traditions, and artistic creations of people of African descent. But for all their accomplishments and contributions to the cultures of the African Diaspora, the Muslim slaves have been largely ignored. Servants of Allah is the first book to examine the role of Islam in the lives of both individual practitioners and in the American slave community as a whole, while also shedding light on the legacy of Islam in today's American and Caribbean cultures. Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 1999.

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270

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NYU Press

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081472082X

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9780814720820

The Red Plague

By: Corrado Mastantuono,Sylviane Corgiat

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The Red Plague

By: Corrado Mastantuono,Sylviane Corgiat

A Sword and Sorcery story about the redemptive journey of a once cruel king to reclaim his identity.

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Humanoids Inc

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1594654409

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9781594654404

Fighting the Slave Trade

West African Strategies

By: Sylviane Anna Diouf

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Fighting the Slave Trade

West African Strategies

By: Sylviane Anna Diouf

Annotation Explores in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it.

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270

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Ohio University Press

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0821415166

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9780821415160

Tigran

By: Sylviane Corgiat,Laura Zuccheri

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Tigran

By: Sylviane Corgiat,Laura Zuccheri

In a world whose time is running out, four mysterious swords must be reunited to save the planet. A spectacular saga full of wondrous creatures and settings.

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Humanoids Inc

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1594657688

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9781594657689

ELexicography in the 21st Century : New Challenges, New Applications

Proceedings of ELex 2009, Louvain-la-Neuve, 22-24 October 2009

By: Sylviane Granger

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ELexicography in the 21st Century : New Challenges, New Applications

Proceedings of ELex 2009, Louvain-la-Neuve, 22-24 October 2009

By: Sylviane Granger

The field of lexicography is undergoing a major revolution. The rapid replacement of the traditional paper dictionary by electronic dictionaries opens up exciting possibilities but also constitutes a major challenge to the field. The eLexicography in the 21st Century: New Challenges, New Applications conference organized by the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics of the Université catholique de Louvain in October 2009 aimed to bring together the many researchers around the world who are working in the fast developing field of electronic lexicography and to act as a showcase for the latest lexicographic developments and software solutions in the field. The conference attracted both academics and industrial partners from 30 different countries who presented electronic dictionary projects dealing with no less than 22 languages. The resulting proceedings volume bears witness to the tremendous vitality and diversity of research in the field. The volume covers a wide range span of topics, including: -the use of language resources for lexicographic purposes, in the form of lexical databases like WordNet or corpora of different types - innovative changes to the dictionary structure afforded by the electronic medium, in particular multiple access routes and efficient integration of phraseology -specialised dictionaries (e.g. SMS dictionaries, sign language dictionaries) -automated customisation of dictionaries in function of users' needs -exploitation of Natural Language Processing tools - integration of electronic dictionaries into language learning and teaching

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475

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Presses univ. de Louvain

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2874632112

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9782874632112

Dreams of Africa in Alabama

The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama

The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)

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369

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Oxford University Press

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0199723982

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9780199723980

Atlas d'acupuncture

By: Sylviane Burner,Claudia Focks,ELSEVIER GmbH (Germany)

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Atlas d'acupuncture

By: Sylviane Burner,Claudia Focks,ELSEVIER GmbH (Germany)

Très pratique pour localiser correctement les points d'acupuncture, cet atlas décrit aussi le contexte particulier de chaque point et ses possibilités thérapeutiques. En introduction, l'ouvrage fait un rappel synthétique du système des méridiens, des différentes méthodes de localisation des points, des mesures du corps en cun et des repères anatomiques. Le cœur de l'ouvrage présente de manière claire et détaillée plus de 400 points d'acupuncture : points des méridiens principaux, points des huit merveilleux vaisseaux et points hors méridiens. Les derniers chapitres approfondissent les points les plus importants de chaque méridien par région anatomique, puis les des différentes catégories de points et leurs associations. La présentation de chaque point est structurée sur une seule page pour accéder facilement à l'information : localisation : instructions précises qui guident le lecteur pas à pas dans l'anatomie de surface jusqu'à l'emplacement du point ; insertion : angle(s) et profondeur d'insertion, type d'aiguille recommandé; actions : indications, précautions à prendre, risques et contre-indications éventuels ; caractéristiques particulières : spécificités d'action et d'usage clinique du point. Par ailleurs, des pictogrammes indiquent l'essentiel en un clin d'œil : l'angle et la profondeur d'insertion de l'aiguille, les précautions requises, l'usage de la moxibustion, de la saignée et des ventouses (recommandé, contestable ou contre-indiqué), une structure anatomique particulièrement importante pour la localisation. Enfin, l'iconographie associe plus de 700 photographies et 600 dessins : les vues d'ensemble ou en macro alternent avec la surimpression des structures osseuses, musculaires ou vasculaires sur des photos d'anatomie de surface pour un haut degré de précision visuelle. Didactique et exhaustif, cet atlas sera un outil efficace pour tous les acupuncteurs, confirmés ou en formation.

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Elsevier Masson

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2994099764

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9782994099765

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Slavery's Exiles

Slavery's Exiles

Modelling Language

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Servants of Allah

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The Red Plague

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Fighting the Slave Trade

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Tigran

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ELexicography in the 21st Century : New Challenges, New Applications

ELexicography in the 21st Century : New Challenges, New Applications

Dreams of Africa in Alabama

Dreams of Africa in Alabama

Atlas d'acupuncture

Atlas d'acupuncture

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