James H Sweet: 3 books
Recreating Africa
Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the...
by James H. Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century...
The New Entrepreneurial Leader
Developing Leaders Who Shape Social and Economic Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In years past, the keywords for leaders were confidence, single-minded purpose, and strategic planning. But today’s vastly complex, globalized, and fast-evolving world requires a different kind of leadership. This game-changing book details a new approach—entrepreneurial leadership—developed...