Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean, Paperback - Omar H. Ali

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

Reducere. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mys...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It has often been said t...

Lost overboard at night in a storm - no one saw him fall, and no one could hear him shout

Reducere. Sharks, whales, huge waves, and months and months at sea - these are just a few of the things that James Adair and his friend Ben had to battle aga...

DescriptionHow is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and...

Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 5 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Eastern Africa, from the Great La...

A revised and expanded edition of Ali's important history of how African Americans have created independent and third-party movements to expand dem...

Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nation-states around the...

DescriptionThis volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World--the world's ...

Reducere. Captured in Ethiopia and sold into slavery as a child, Malik Ambar travels throughout the Middle East until he arrives in India. Despite a lifetime...

This book introduces children to the Indian Ocean, looking at islands and how the Equator affects temperature and weather. Children are encouraged ...

Reducere. On December 26, 2004, an enormous earthquake ripped through the Indian Ocean. This triggered a series of massive tsunami waves, some as high as 100...

Featuring a wealth of practice scenarios, MRCP PACES: 180 Clinical Cases enables trainees to test themselves on everything they need to know to pas...

A complete reference book of sharks, rays and fishes for researchers, divers and snorkellers. Contains 1124 colour photographs of almost every fish...

The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Its recognition as a zoogeographic region i...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionSHORTLISTED FOR THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD 2019'The Island Kitchen has lifted my spirits and made me hungry and happy in equal measure...

Reducere. In August 1970, David Biale, a 21-year-old American Jewish student, arrived at Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Israel's Bet She'an Valley as a volunteer. Th...

This book adopts a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the experimental bodies of works produced by African, African Ameri...

Publisher: Lexington BooksNumber of pages: 370Collection: Comparative Urban StudiesPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 33Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is often referred to as the 'Constitution for the Oceans'. It addresses multiple ...

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for...

International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they interact. This book examines how Port...

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad fol...

Publisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 5 Illustrations, black and white; 7 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 282Collection: Scho...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

'David Reynolds is the perfect man for the road'. The ObserverBill Bryson's The Lost Continent meets Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. A candid, hu...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

Reducere. An exploration of fatherhood that takes us beyond the quotidian to explore the ties that bind with a philosophical eye and a lyrical heart.In his m...

From Ocean City, Maryland to San Francisco, Reynolds traverses the back roads and small towns of the USA, taking the pulse of Trump's America as he...

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

Dot. compradors. Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry - Jyoti Saraswati

Reducere. "Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas."--San Francis...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sigh...

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose ho...

The late A.A. Gill, the masterfully dyslexic wordsmith and long-time source of inspiration, wrote that "America didn't bypass or escape civilisatio...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Susan YoungIllustration(s): 6 Tables, black and white; 6 Printed music items; 6 Illustrations, black ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sebouh AslanianIllustration(s): 14 b-w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tablesNumbe...