Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas, Paperback - Alvin O. Thompson

Reducere. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An...

A collection of fictional biographies of right-wing writers, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents an alternative world of 20th...

An examination of how Pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumber o...

Reducere. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand sold...

In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of ...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas ...

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Throughout American history, people of combined African and Native American descent have often struggled for acceptance, not only from dominant cul...

Examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the 1910s), and proposes a n...

An LA Times Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Editors' Pick - A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books - A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Ye...

Reducere. DescriptionCommanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Afr...

Reducere. DescriptionIndigenous and non-Indigenous voices come together in this volume to discuss both the wounds of colonial history and the opportunities f...

Reducere. Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, L...

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Reducere. This is the story of a legendary expedition across four thousand miles of the future United States, led by an explorer searching for an illusionary...

This book utilizes an intersectional feminist approach to analyze reproductive and gendered violence against women across the Americas with case st...

The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contributi...

DescriptionIn Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politic...

Reducere. DescriptionThe last Public Enemy No. 1 of the Depression era, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis reportedly compiled a record of fifty-four aliases, fifteen ban...

Reducere. DescriptionIn At the Edge of Space, Milton O. Thompson tells the dramatic story of one of the most successful research aircraft ever flown. The fir...

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- "A must read... Goes beyond generalities and sheds light." - Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University "An important scholarly work... a testament." -...

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Ame...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ana Veciana-SuarezYara Garcia 's family has lived in Havana, Cuba, for several generations, but when Communist ruler Fidel ...

For over fifty years the Maroons of Dominica resisted being enslaved, choosing instead to live free in the country's mountainous interior. They dar...

In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an astonishing 81 days.

Reducere. Lives of fifteen Saints from North America, Central America, and South America, illustrated in full color.

The last Public Enemy No. 1 of the Depression era, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis reportedly compiled a record of fifty-four aliases, fifteen bank robberies...

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction I...

Reducere. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, long before the Vikings discovered the New World, the indigenous cultures of the America...

This edited collection brings together an impressive and international array of coaching supervisors to highlight the unique cultural and contextua...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Colin TownsendIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 150Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 203 x 2...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Colin TownsendIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 150Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 208 x 2...

Reducere. This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular 1991 booklet that changed the way "the discovery of America" is taught in classroom and communi...

Tom is a boy from England who dreams of being an adventurer. Everyone tells him he's crazy, so he decides to prove them wrong by going around the w...

Reducere. A beautiful presentation of this Marian Feast. Illustrated in full color.

PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience a...

Handbook of Comparative Educational Law: Selected European from Africa and the Americas, Volume 4 provides detailed analysis of education law in Br...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...