The slave trade : 1440 to 1770.

Forma parte de una serie que estudia la historia del hombre negro y de sus logros en el contexto histórico mundial. Este texto explica el estado de las culturas africanas hacia 1400 cuando llegan comerciantes europeos al oeste del continente; el comienzo del mercado de esclavos desde África hasta América; la colonización británica; la empresa internacional del comercio de esclavos desde 1600 hasta 1800; los movimientos de protesta y resistencia y la construcción de nuevas vidas en América.

El cinema i la constitució d'un públic popular a Barcelona. El cas del Paral·lel

Between 1895 and 1910 Barcelona saw a whole range of social, political and cultural changes due to the increasingly important emergence of the working masses. At the same time, the cinema arrived in Catalonia, becoming very quickly one of the favorite entertainments of the urban laboring population which was about creating a new culture opposed to the modernist and nineteenth-century elite .This is, broadly speaking, the context that serves as a starting point for a study of the role of cinema in shaping a mass audience in Barcelona, an analysis centered on new urban spaces intended for the leisure of the lower classes emerged with the birth of modern Barcelona, especially the “Paral•lel” avenue, whose opening in 1894 made even more apparent the great social tensions and existing inequalities in Barcelona’s society at the end of the century.

Empires, Religion & Trade

The Indian Ocean became the meeting point of two emerging empires in the early 16th century: the Mughal and the Portuguese empires, both different in their nature and objectives. While the Mughals were the dominant land power in the Indian subcontinent, the Portuguese dominated the coastal waters and the sea lanes They influenced each other’s fortunes, and of the region as a whole.