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Reducere. The 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board are well documented in books and in a blockbuster film. Michael Zeuske adds a n...

Emeric Bergeaud's Stella (1859), the first Haitian novel ever published, combines descriptions of moving scenes with factual accounts of the thirte...

Reducere. Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in tr...

Reducere. Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There w...

Reducere. Roberto Clemente, the first Latino baseball superstar, died on December 31, 1972, when his plane crashed while he tried to fly relief supplies to e...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Translator: Noel Q. KingEditor: Said HamdunAbu Abdalla ibn Battuta (1304-1354) was one of the greatest travelers of pre-modern time...

The philosopher and physician Ab 'Al al-Husayn ibn 'Abdall h ibn S n (d. 1037 c.e.), known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna, was one of t...

Reducere. Cuentos is a bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine The San Juan Review,...

Reducere. Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico's exquisite black ...

DescriptionThe Ottoman Empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. It included the islands of Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, ...

Reducere. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between a Western power with imperial goals and an ancient regime of an African society....

Reducere. From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico d...

Reducere. "These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain her freedom early in the war, with the education and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fernando PicoOne of Puerto Rico's leading historians, Fernando Pichas had tremendous influence over our currect understandi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Robert O. CollinsEditor: Ruth IyobThis updated and expanded new collection covers the major problems in the field, incorpor...

Reducere. This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Com...

Reducere. "When the author, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, was a lad, his country was a British crown colony, and its government offered one univ...

This book is designed to inform, engage, and stimulate discussions among its readers. Collins and his collaborators have included authoritative sta...

Reducere. This timely book is the first to cover the history of Jews from the times of Alexander the Great and Caesar to Idi Amin and Nelson Mandela. Jews ha...

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 ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saraiya FaroqhiAuthor: Suraiya FaroqhiIn a concise and colorful style, Suraiya Faroqhi lays out the history of one of the m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hernaan HornaAuthor: Herman HornaThe history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that fo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frank Moya Pons"This book is excellent." -- Junot Diaz, in the New York Times Book Review "Frank Moya Pons is the best-know...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald James JohnsonAuthor: Jean Elliott JohnsonThe final volume in this highly acclaimed series ushers in the twentieth ce...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald James JohnsonAuthor: Jean Elliott JohnsonThe third volume in this highly acclaimed series examines world history fro...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael M. GunterThe Kurds are America's most reliable allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, in a region whos...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean Elliott JohnsonAuthor: Donald James JohnsonThe second volume of the series expands upon the concepts and foundations o...

Reducere. The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Other: Robert O. CollinsThis fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant's guide to the Red...

Reducere. This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains...

Reducere. For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the ...

Reducere. Haiti's dramatic history, pressing social problems, and rich culture make it one of the most fascinating nations in the Americas. This book aims to...

Reducere. From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jurgen Osterhammel"Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the European power...

Reducere. The West and the World engages students and provokes discussion by presenting the past through the prism of current and perennial issues. Interpret...

Reducere. "The conventional view of World War II as a conflict that was not fought in the Americas is debunked in this fascinating book. German submarine war...

Reducere. Within these pages students will meet Bartolom de Las Casas, the stout defender of the indigenous Americans in 16th-century Spanish America, and An...

This updated and expanded new collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating classic texts, the newest research, and recent contr...

Reducere. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It is a unique blend of Asian and African culture and is well known as the home of some of th...

Reducere. Konstantin Mihailovic, born a Christian Serb in the early 15th century, was kidnapped by Ottoman Turks and brought to Anatolia, where he was traine...

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 co...

Reducere. This book interprets Puerto Rico's first and most significant attempt to end its colonial dependence on Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and...

In this book, Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of civilization at a time when the West was primitive and backward. Its reac...

Reducere. In this work, Gonz lez dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the na...

Reducere. Chronological events are supplemented by thematic ones, such as the development of cities and trade, the spread of religions and the idea of the la...

Reducere. This updated and expanded 2016 edition of the classic text on Muslim thinking about war and peace features new chapters on jihad after 9/11, includ...

Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candombl is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Iain McCalmanRobert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publ...

Reducere. Slaves have been exploited in most societies throughout human history. There have, however, been only five genuine slave societies, and of these, t...

Reducere. The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has e...

Reducere. On May 30, 1961, a hail of bullets ended the life of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, known to his countrymen as "The Goat" for his many rev...

No episode in African history is more controversial than the Mau Mau Uprising, and within it, no figure more polarizing than Waruhiu Itote, or "Gen...

Reducere. This stimulating and timely collection examines the Ta no revi­val movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who pro...

Reducere. The demonstrations that resulted in the U.S. Navy's being forced out of Vieques in 2003 were the result of the island's occupation during and after...

Reducere. Medieval Fez was a main center of education, art, and commerce from the 13th to the 16th centuries after the Berber tribe of the Marīnids seized po...

At the crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe, the South Arabian kingdoms were major commercial, military, and cultural players in world histo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Olga Jimenez De WagenheimAuthor: Olga Jimenez De WagenheimBecause many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have be...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ahmad Ibn FadlanThis is the first English translation of the famous Risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadla...

Reducere. From the eighth century onwards, the Muslim townsfolk of North Africa were well aware that fifty stages away across the desert to the south lay a l...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: E. W. BovillAuthor: Edward W. Bovill"This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering overone] ...

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...