Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

Reducere. Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe...

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of t...

Reducere. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and ...

Reducere. From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on c...

An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decad...

Reducere. One of the greatest hopes and expectations that accompanied American colonialism - from its earliest incarnation - was that Atlantic settlers would...

Reducere. Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World ...

Description"Superb... A tour de force."--Ebrahim Moosa"Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a...

Reducere. The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe,...

Reducere. It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic sl...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

Examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becomi...

Reducere. African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing ...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish c...

Reducere. This unique anthology is the first to provide a multicultural perspective on witchcraft from the 15th to 18th century. Featuring primary documents ...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

For African Americans, enslaved and free, the potential for one-sided violence was always present and deeply traumatic. This groundbreaking study r...

The epic story of the world's longest and greatest railway, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian.

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

The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New ...

The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New ...

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Robin WalkerBlacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today's ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. JarvisIn an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's...

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...