American History
American History
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...
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Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood...
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Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood...
$79.49
Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000
Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants―both free and enslaved―participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that...
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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as...
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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as...
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Afrodeutscher Aktivismus: Interventionen von Kolonisierten am Wendepunkt der Dekolonisierung Deutschlands 1919 (Zivilisationen und Geschichte
Nach Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs wurden nicht nur in Europa Machtverhältnisse neu ausgehandelt und Grenzen neu gezogen. Während in Deutschland erst das Kaiserreich und dann die Revolution scheiterte, die erste deutsche Republik gegründet und bald darauf zerstört wurde, nahmen Kolonisierte...
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Afrodescendientes en la independencia
Afrodescendientes en la independencia relata la participacion de la comunidad negra en las guerras de independencia, la conquista de la libertad y la consolidacion de la democracia en todo el continente americano, desde Alaska hasta la Patagonia. Puede ver mas...
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Afro-Asian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or...
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AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or...
$102.99
Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
This extensively researched history traces the lives of black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia who, still enslaved at the time, arrived with the influx of black loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783.
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora...
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Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World
The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed critical to understanding the...
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Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa...
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Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands
Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and...
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Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
"This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities. . . . Bennett does a masterful job." ―Judith A. Byfield, DartmouthIn this study of the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New...
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Africans Before Caricom
Africans Before Caricom documents the long history of members of the World African Community from their beginnings in Africa to their arrivals in the Caribbean and other parts of the western hemisphere. Its first chapter reports ideas from African peoples,...
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African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil (New World Diasporas)
“A sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of mid-twentieth-century cultural politics, recognizing both the fundamental changes that took place as Afro-Bahian cultural politics became incorporated into representations of Bahia and the limited material gains for Afro-Bahians during this period.”—Hendrik Kraay, editor of Negotiating...
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African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present
Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present...
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African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present
Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present...
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The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650
The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650 The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.Warrior. Samurai. Legend.When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late...
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The African Remedy
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The African Remedy
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African Peoples of the Americas: From Slavery to Civil Rights
An investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3. Each book provides teachers with all the material they require to develop fully their pupils' historical knowledge, skills and understanding.
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African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents
From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior of the isthmus. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama, a primary source reader, edited by Robert C. Schwaller, documents...
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An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at...
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The African Imagination in Music
The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the...
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The African Experience in Spanish America (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 23)
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The African Experience in Spanish America (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 23)
This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains the only general history on the people of African descent in the Spanish-speaking nations of the...
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African Exodus: Migration and the Future of Europe
In 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Africa and the Near East took flight and sought refuge in Europe. By the end of that year, some 1.8 million migrants had arrived in the EU, the vast majority having come...
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