Black Star: the African Presence in Early Europe, Paperback - Runoko Rashidi

Publisher: Books of Africa LtdAuthor(s): Runoko RashidiIllustration(s): 58 colour imagesNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 234 x...

This is the third in a trilogy by the well-known African-American scholar, Runoko Rashidi. In the first two volumes which have sold well, Black Sta...

Runoko Rashidi is the foremost living scholar in the field of research into Black communities all over the world. He is not the kind of academic wh...

Publisher: Books of Africa LtdIllustration(s): 49 colour and 35 mono photographsNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 158 x 232 x 2...

As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

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wrote this book to in order to provide the history and some leadership to an industry in the African American community that was once a pillar of e...

Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --Histo...

Invisible Voices explores the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualizing the historical black presence in crime and punish...

This study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, and culture who are interested in Rome's persistence in medieval and early ...

In this wide-ranging monograph, the achievements of Irma Stern, one of South Africa's most celebrated painters, are introduced to a contemporary au...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

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This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...

DescriptionThis edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

Reducere. Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black C...

Looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbe...

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From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural...

Reducere. In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

DescriptionThis fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect ...

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic the...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

Reducere. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whe...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Lydia (Northwestern University) BarnettIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: European History: A Captiv...

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"Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and c...

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. This included...

Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comp...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

A bird's dilemma...Goldie lives across from the Little Wooden House, a bit beyond the bend where the bridge meets the forest. But there is somethin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...