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By : Gaiutra Bahadur
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In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a ?coolie??the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history.?In?Coolie Woman?shortlisted for the 2014 Orwell Prize?her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her.?Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother?s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages?traumatic ?middle passages??only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual .
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Tittle : Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
Pages : 312 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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ISBN-10 : 022621138X
ISBN-13 : 9780226211381
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By : Ben-Erik van Wyk
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Plants have been used to treat disease throughout human history. On a clay slab that dates back approximately five thousand years, the Sumerians recorded medicinal recipes that made use of hundreds of plants, including poppy, henbane, and mandrake. During the Middle Ages, monks commonly grew and prescribed plants such as sage, anise, and mint in their monasteries. And as the market for herbal remedies and natural medicine grows, we continue to search the globe for plants and plant compounds to combat our various ailments. ??????????? In Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons, Ben-Erik van Wyk offers a richly illustrated, scientific guide to medicinal and poisonous plants, including those used for their mind-altering effects. Van Wyk covers approximately 350 species?from Aloe vera and Ephedra sinica to Cannabis sativa and Coffea arabica?detailing their botanical, geographical, pharmacological, and toxicological data as well as the chemical structures of the active compounds in .
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Tittle : Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons
Author : Ben-Erik van Wyk
Pages : 304 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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ISBN-10 : 022620491X
ISBN-13 : 9780226204918
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