American History
American History
Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America
Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music,...
$45.99
Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America
Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music,...
$114.99
Black Victorians, Black Victoriana
Black Victorians/Black Victoriana is a welcome attempt to correct the historical record. Although scholarship has given us a clear view of nineteenth-century imperialism, colonialism, and later immigration from the colonies, there has for far too long been a gap in...
$49.00
Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at...
$68.99
Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at...
$68.99
Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War
Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial...
$49.99
Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War
Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial...
$180.00
Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing
Through the research and experiences of 16 scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local perceptions and the ways in which these notions are asserted...
$68.99
Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing
Through the research and experiences of 16 scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local perceptions and the ways in which these notions are asserted...
$68.99
A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
In 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation that inspired the...
$24.95
The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution
2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationAs the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activist-intellectuals in the...
$34.50
Black Psychiatrists and American Psychiatry
Presenting a vivid historical account of the contributions that black psychiatrists have made to American psychiatry, this important book documents the growth and influence of the group in tandem with the advancement of the field as a whole. It provides...
$102.99
Black Power in the Caribbean
“An altogether path-breaking collection of riveting essays.”—Robert A. Hill, Editor in Chief of The Marcus Garvey & UNIA Papers “A fascinating, original, and much-needed history of the development of Black Power on the various islands of the Caribbean. By moving the...
$86.99
Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (Contemporary Black History)
A transnational, pan-African youth movement, Black Power in Bermuda sought freedom for Blacks from the islandâ€s White oligarchy and independence from British colonialism. It was spearheaded by activists such as Pauulu Kamarakafego and the Black Beret Cadre. The Cadre maintained...
$155.98
The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony
The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present. The contributors to this collection explore three main axes. The first...
$37.50
The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony
The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present. The contributors to this collection explore three main axes. The first...
$113.99
Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War
In this updated edition of his acclaimed study of the black presence in Britain during World War I, Stephen Bourne illuminates fascinating stories of black servicemen of African heritage. These accounts of the fights for their "Mother Country" are charted...
$22.95
Black People Invented Everything: The Deep History of Indigenous Creativity
Who invented the traffic light? What about transportation itself? Farming? Art? Modern chemistry? Who made cats? What if I told you there was ONE answer to all of these questions? That one answer? BLACK PEOPLE! Seriously. And this book is...
$37.99
Black People in the British Empire
'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ - Akala Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples...
$138.00
Black People in the British Empire
'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ - Akala Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples...
$19.95
Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the...
$126.50
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa: The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
This book maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in 1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks at the Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonial modernity and coloniality of...
$149.98
Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa: The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation
This book maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in 1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks at the Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonial modernity and coloniality of...
$149.98
The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert...
$180.00
The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize. The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall...
$46.00
Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from "New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico," a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social...
$34.99
Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche
#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History ― Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the Titanic An Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a...
$16.95
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and...
$34.99
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and...
$109.49
Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
$29.95
Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine,...
$29.95