American History
American History
Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770–1830
The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black...
$147.00
Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
Beyond Black and Red is the first book to deal primarily and specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Matthew Restall has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin American...
$34.49
Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson's Journal of St Vincent During the Apprenticeship
On August 1, 1834, more than 20,000 African slaves were emancipated in the British Caribbean. As in other areas of the British Empire, however, only slave children under six years of age were freed immediately. The rest were apprenticed to...
$46.00
Between Black and White: Race, Politics, and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792-1865
The complex story of the rise and fall of the colored class in Jamaican politics is examined in this important contribution to the history of the Caribbean.
$109.00
The Best of the Little Known Black History Facts
This book attempts to present facts to help you to read between the lines to discern the truth. Read, meditate, discern, know yourself, your human self, your family self and your GOD self
$14.95
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once...
$43.99
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti,...
$119.99
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti,...
$89.99
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
In this richly illustrated account of black–white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color.For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African...
$41.00
Becoming Brazilians
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation...
$44.00
Becoming Brazilians
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation...
$152.00
Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico
This study uses the participation of free colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial categorization, and issues of social mobility for racially stigmatized groups...
$144.00
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto: A history of medical care 1941–1990
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state....
$36.00
Avidly Reads Passages
"What is the value of Black life in America?"In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel―the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus―to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process,...
$14.95
Avidly Reads Passages
"What is the value of Black life in America?"In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel―the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus―to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process,...
$90.99
The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans
The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans and other Allied Families including: Allain, Bonneval, Bringier, Chiapella, Coudrain, Dalcour, Delachaise, Domingon, Dupuy, Edmunds, Flot, Foy, Grandmaison, Lassize, Latrobe, Lemelle, Lorreins, Ozenne, Pinta, Raby, Rigaud, St. Hubert, Watkinson,...
$86.00
Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually...
$42.49
Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is...
$97.99
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After...
$49.99
As We Saw It: The Story of Integration at the University of Texas at Austin
In 2016, the University of Texas at Austin celebrated two important milestones: the thirtieth anniversary of the Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights and the sixtieth anniversary of the first black undergraduate students to enter the university. These historic moments...
$32.00
The Art of Life in South Africa
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and...
$114.95
The Art of Life in South Africa
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and...
$42.49
April's Revolution: A Modern Perspective of American Medical Care of Civil War Soldiers and African Slaves
The American Civil War is often studied because of its battles, but people tend to ignore how it helped revolutionize the medical field. Bloodshed on the battlefield and the spread of disease led to advances in medical decision making and...
$29.95
April's Revolution: A Modern Perspective of American Medical Care of Civil War Soldiers and African Slaves
The American Civil War is often studied because of its battles, but people tend to ignore how it helped revolutionize the medical field. Bloodshed on the battlefield and the spread of disease led to advances in medical decision making and...
$19.95
Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa
In this single square mile hemmed in by White areas, residents engaged in what is arguably the most multi-faceted, inventive, and versatile strategy of resistance during the 1970s. Apartheid on a Black Isle brings to the fore the definitive but...
$137.50
Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa
In this single square mile hemmed in by White areas, residents engaged in what is arguably the most multi-faceted, inventive, and versatile strategy of resistance during the 1970s. Apartheid on a Black Isle brings to the fore the definitive but...
$137.50
Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution
Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the...
$40.99
Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other”
This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in...
$65.49
Ancient and Modern Britons, Vol. 2
This volume work of Scottish Historian David Mac Ritchie, 1851-1925, first published in 1884 and long out of print, its impact will have as profound an impact as Gerald Massey and Godfey Higgins.
$24.95
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
* A New Republic Best Book of the Year * The Globalist Top Books of the Year * Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction *Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating...
$40.00