More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, Paperback - David Gaspar

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

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

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

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...

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...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

Reducere. How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the Euro...

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...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keri Leigh MerrittAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess worker...

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...

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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. "My own observation of the real condition of the people of our Slave States, gave me ... an impression that the cotton monopoly in some way did the...

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

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

Reducere. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shayla Black comes a new story in her More Than Words series...Can I convince her our hot but ...

Reducere. Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the tas...

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

Reducere. From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and...

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African...

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

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title pr...

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Reducere. In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest ...

- "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...

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Professor James Walvi...

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.

Reducere. Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own per...