American History
American History
The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars
$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...
$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...
$46.99
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...
$40.50
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...
$23.95
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...
$46.99
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...
$18.00
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...
$16.95
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...
$17.99
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...
$34.50
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
Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba,...
$19.00
Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation After the Revolution
In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the...
$39.00
Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration And the Anglo-caribbean Experience (Memory and Narrative)
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Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration And the Anglo-caribbean Experience (Memory and Narrative)
Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the...
$221.00
Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain (Harvard Historical Studies)
Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. For two hundred years, as Britain shipped over three million Africans to the New World, popular images of blacks as slaves...
$67.00
Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali Basemjondolo (2011)
Written by a leading scholar of Frantz Fanon, Fanonian Practices in South Africa examines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics, and by extension, to postcolonial Africa. Nigel C. Gibson offers theoretically informed historical analysis, providing crucial insights into...
$69.00
The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world...
$128.99
The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world...
$40.99
An Evolving Racial Identity: A Social And Cultural History Of Latinos In The United States
In this groundbreaking study, Ana Hernandez offers an in-depth analysis of the social and cultural influences in the Latino community and its effect on the development of Latino racial identity from clinical and therapeutic perspectives. Her book addresses what it...
$167.99
Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba
Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this groundbreaking history, David Sartorius explores the...
$34.75