American History
American History
The Teacher Clarity Playbook, Grades K-12: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction
Unlock the secrets to student achievement with purposeful learning and clear expectations On a clear day, you can learn forever― that’s the adapted lyric you’ll be happily humming once you’ve covered this playbook, because you will have mastered using learning...
$45.50
Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality. The controversies surrounding conflicting attitudes toward race and religion, love...
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Turtle Bogue: Afro-Caribbean Life and Culture in a Costa Rican Village
This study records an oral history and ethnography of the Afro-Caribbean individuals and families who settled in Tortuguero, a small village in northeastern Costa Rica. It is the product of nine months of field work in Costa Rica by the...
$128.00
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804
In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agency—or the capacity to resist domination—of those oppressed. Aravamudan’s analysis of texts that...
$38.00
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804
In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agency—or the capacity to resist domination—of those oppressed. Aravamudan’s analysis of texts that...
$149.99
Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race
Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits—inter-American and transatlantic—from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for...
$117.00
Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race
Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits—inter-American and transatlantic—from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for...
$35.99
Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880
Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and...
$75.99
Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits Jamaica
Despite outstanding histories and ethnographies on maroons, there has been little attempt to draw modern maroons into a comparative perspective with the descendants of emancipated slaves who are the majority of African-Americans today. There is therefore a gap in the...
$57.99
Tinta negra en el gris del ayer: Los afroporteños a través de sus periódicos entre 1873 y 1882 (Spanish Edition)
La imagen de un país pródigo, exento de conflictos raciales y capaz de recrearse en torno al mestizaje, es parte de los rasgos de identidad de la nación. Un país resultante de conflictos entre pueblos originarios y colonizadores, pero también...
$28.00
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next...
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next...
$26.95
Through the Tax Assessor's Eyes: Enslaved People, Free Blacks and Slaveholders in Early Nineteenth Century Baltimore
Based primarily upon the original tax assessor ledgers for 1813 and 1818 housed at the Baltimore City Archives, this work identifies all free blacks and slave owners in Baltimore by name, race, address, occupation, names/ages of slaves owned (if any),...
$59.00
Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 (Volume 14)
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to...
$45.99
Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 (Volume 14)
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to...
$123.50
"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime
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"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime
There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over...
$100.00
Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies: Confrontations and Contradictions
This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of...
$212.50
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern...
$56.25
Teaching History to Black Students in the United Kingdom
At a time when populist movements have gained ground across the globe and migrants have taken center stage as unwanted pariahs in the eyes of many, this book dares to tackle a culturally relevant threat, much talked about but seldom...
$128.99
Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to AfromexicansDuring the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax...
$68.99
Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was...
$36.00
Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was...
$115.99
The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion...
$63.99
The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion...
$162.50
The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress
Recounts the A.N.C.'s efforts to end apartheid, and describes the experiences of its jailed leader, Nelson Mandela
$10.95
Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of...
$133.99
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
“A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries.”—Guardian“For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain, Mr. Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book.”—Salman Rushdie Staying Power is a panoramic history...
$138.00
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
“A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries.”—Guardian“For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain, Mr. Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book.”—Salman Rushdie Staying Power is a panoramic history...
$22.95
South Africa: Diary of Troubled Times
This volume is a fascinating collection of pieces by South African journalist Nomavenda Mathiane. Unlike much that is written about South Africa, these pieces are very personal observations and reflections based on day-to-day experiences. They range from descriptions of the...
$60.00
South Africa: Diary of Troubled Times
This volume is a fascinating collection of pieces by South African journalist Nomavenda Mathiane. Unlike much that is written about South Africa, these pieces are very personal observations and reflections based on day-to-day experiences. They range from descriptions of the...
$120.00