American History
American History
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...
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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...
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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
A History of the ANC: South Africa Belongs to Us
" . . . Meli combines the insights of an insider with sound scholarship." ―Patrick O'Meara"Meli's book is a welcome addition to the literature on South Africa." ―L. E. Meyer, Choice" . . . the book is written in a...
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South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict and Identity in Selected South African Novels
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South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict and Identity in Selected South African Novels
South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major authors...
$81.99
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots
“Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khanga’s family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . [An] unusual and fascinating odyssey. . . . However Yelena Khanga reconciles the complex strands of her...
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Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
$45.99
Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
$104.00
Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
$312.00
Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932 (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)
While the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures. In Sol Plaatje: A Life, Brian Willan restores to history the importance...
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The Smell of Slavery
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental, which culminated in the creation of a progressive...
$54.99
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America
Almost eleven of the twelve million Africans who survived the trauma of enslavement in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage, remade their lives in territories claimed by Spain or Portugal. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused sources,...
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Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
One reason that Schwartz is the leading authority on colonial Brazilian social and economic history (especially slavery) is that he ranges widely, addressing comparative themes and reexamining traditional interpretations about society. This collection of essays reconsiders the critical issues of...
$32.50
Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations: Connecting Old and New Diasporas to the Homeland
From the historical movements of enslaved Africans to the Americas to newer migrations of Africans to spaces like Belgium and France, experiences of blackness on a global stage reflect themes of negotiation, persecution, isolation, unification, remembrance, and much more. Yet,...
$137.99
Slavery in Dutch South Africa
This was the first comprehensive analysis of slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652–1795) when it was published in 1985. Based on archival research in Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa, it examines the...
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Slavery in Brazil
Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil...
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Slavery in Brazil
Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil...
$96.00
Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
Jesuit priest Alonso de Sandoval's important 1627 missionary history, the only existing published document that deals with Africans in the Americas at such an early date, describes a means to salvation for Jesuits and Africans alike in the New World....
$77.99
Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana
Enslavement and medicine historiography has not addressed the African's proactive participation in, and development of, medicine in the United States. The scholarly literature largely focuses on "Negro/Slave Medicine" and the efforts of slaveowners to acquire adequate care for the enslaved...
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Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean
From the arrival of Hispanicized Africans during the Age of Discovery to today's renewal of racial identities, the history of Africans in Latin America has been complex, their contributions numerous. It is precisely this complexity that the essays in Slavery...
$82.00
Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean
From the arrival of Hispanicized Africans during the Age of Discovery to today's renewal of racial identities, the history of Africans in Latin America has been complex, their contributions numerous. It is precisely this complexity that the essays in Slavery...
$167.99
Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship
Winner, 2018 AHA Bolton Prize (best book on Latin American History)Winner, 2018 AHA/CLAH Dean Prize (best book on Brazilian History)Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the...
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Sklavenhändler, Negreros Und Atlantikkreolen: Eine Weltgeschichte Des Sklavenhandels Im Atlantischen Raum
„Sklavenhändler, Negreros und Atlantikkreolen“ zeichnet die fastunglaubliche Geschichte individueller Profi teure des Sklavenhandelsin den rund 500 Jahren zwischen 1400 und 1900 nach. Ein Raum der„Freiheit“ – der atlantische Ozean – war Schauplatz dieser Geschichteder Gewalt. Er verband die Räume der...
$273.00