American History
American History
Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical: Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1772-1813 (The Enlightenment World)
This is a political, cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure, Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/British descent, born into a slave society but educated in Georgian England, he developed a complex identity to which...
$221.00
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved...
$35.00
Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Perspectives on Southern Africa
This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines...
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Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him...
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Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or...
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Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians, and...
$41.50
From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of...
$38.00
From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata
Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants...
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From Protest to Challenge, Volume 5: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882–1990: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964–1979
"The essays are meticulous and carefully documented accounts which maintain the standard of excellence set by the previous volumes, all of which belong in every library." ―Choice"Based on extensive documentary archives collected by these researchers, and augmented by interviews with...
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From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews
This carefully researched book is a significant addition to this vital fold of knowledge. It sets forth, in fascinating detail, the history, from earliest recorded times, of the black races from the Middle East and Africa.
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The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars
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The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative...
$152.00
The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative...
$52.00
French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization
As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as...
$75.00
French and West Indian: Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana Today
In 1946, after more than three hundred years as French colonies, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana were transformed into "overseas departments" of France, equal and identical in theory to any French department. This book assesses the effects of almost half...
$45.50
Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paolo and Salvador
Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won explores the ways Afro-Brazilians in two major cities adapted to the new conditions of life after the abolition of slavery and how they confronted limitations placed on their new freedom. The book sets forth new ways...
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Freedom In Our Lifetime: The Collected Writings Of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
When a group of young political activists met in 1944 to launch the African National Congress Youth League, it included the nucleus of a remarkable generation of leaders who forged the struggle for freedom and equality in South Africa for...
$51.99
Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil
Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total...
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Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas
After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land. Freedom and Resistance shows how Black Loyalists struggled to find freedom, clashing...
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Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas
After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land. Freedom and Resistance shows how Black Loyalists struggled to find freedom, clashing...
$97.50
Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows...
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Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921: The History of Black Wall Street, and its Destruction in America's Worst and Most Controversial Racial Riot
If you want to discover, the history behind Americans, the worst race Massacre then you better keep reading. On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from...
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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish’s daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. “Mother,” she said, “I see men with...
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
2021 National Book Award Longlist2022 Carnegie Medal Nonfiction LonglistOne of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's“15 Books to Help You...
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification“Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By...
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
2021 National Book Award Longlist2022 Carnegie Medal Nonfiction LonglistOne of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's“15 Books to Help You...
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
2021 National Book Award Longlist2022 Carnegie Medal Nonfiction LonglistOne of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's“15 Books to Help You...
$28.00
The Burning
Includes an All-New Afterword.An unflinching account of America’s most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past.When first published in 2001, society apparently wasn’t ready for such an unstinting narrative. After it...
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back...
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The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazilas Eastern Indians, 1750-1830
The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and racial relations, it challenges standard depictions of the occupation of...
$162.50
Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas
African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on the geographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of the Americas. An important part of that indelibility is marronage that involved both flight from slavery and the establishment of free...
$69.00