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The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capitalby Mark Leone
University of California Press 2005; US$ 50.00What do archaeological excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, reveal about daily life in the city's history? Considering artifacts such as ceramics, spirit bundles, printer's type, and landscapes, this engaging, generously illustrated, and original study illuminates the lives of the city's residents?walking, seeing, reading, talking, eating, and living together in freedom and in oppression for more than three hundred years. Interpreting the results of one of the most innovative projects in American archaeology, The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital speaks powerfully to the struggle for liberty among African Americans and the poor. more...
Civil War on Race Streetby Peter B. Levy
UPF 2003; US$ 59.95''An important contribution to the historiography of the modern African-American freedom struggle. By focusing on a campaign located outside the Deep South (led principally by an African-American woman) that attracted an unprecedented level of federal investigation, Levy joins those scholars who are profitably extending our understanding of what the freedom struggle was, how it was organized, and even when and where it was to be found. more...
Cuba's Military 1990-2005by Hal Klepak
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Provides an examination of the Cuban military in the context of Cuba's political and economic challenges in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, and therefore of Soviet economic, political and psychological support. This book does so by providing historical and political contexts of the development and engagement of the military. more...
Charm Cityby Madison Smartt Bell
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 11.99With a writer’s keen eye, a longtime resident’s familiarity, and his own sly wit, acclaimed novelist Madison Smartt Bell leads us on a walk through his adopted hometown of Baltimore, a city where crab cakes, Edgar Allan Poe, hair extensions, and John Waters movies somehow coexist. From its founding before the Revolutionary War to its place in popular culture—thanks to seminal films like Barry Levinson’s Diner, the television show Homicide, and bestselling books by George Pelecanos and Laura Lippman—Baltimore is America, and in Charm City , Bell brings its story to vivid life. First revealing how Baltimore received some of its nicknames—including “Charm City”—Bell sets off from his neighborhood... more...
Maineby Inc. Weigl Publishers
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 2008; US$ 10.95Maine: The Pine Tree State is a part of the Discover America Series. Maine celebrates the people and culture with beautiful images and engaging facts as well as describing the history, industry, environment, and sports that make this state unique. more...
Marylandby Katherine M. Doherty
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 35.00To understand how the United States came together as a nation, students must first acquaint themselves with the original 13 colonies - and how each of these colonies followed its own path to the ratification of the Constitution. Each book in this set highlights the people, places, and events that were important to the development of each colony. more...
Jamaicaby Janet Gritzner
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 30.00Concise, yet packed with information, these user-friendly volumes are introductions to modern nations of the world. more...
CultureShock! Cubaby Mark Cramer; Marcus Cramer
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17With over three million copies in print, CultureShock! is a dynamic and indispensable range of guides covering countless destinations around the world. The series is especially intended for travellers who are looking to truly understand the countries they are visiting and who might even consider residing there. more...
Cuba in Revolutionby Antoni Kapcia
Reaktion Books 2008; US$ 28.95The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world?s attention toward the tiny but prominent island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid all of the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point, which is what Antoni Kapcia provides with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959. Cuba In Revolution takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analyzing social change, its benefits and disadvantages, popular participation in the revolution, and the development of its ideology. Kapcia probes into Castro?s rapid rise to national leader, exploring his politics of defense and dissent as well as his contentious relationship with the United States from the beginning of... more...
Essays in Cuban Intellectual Historyby R. Rojas
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 80.00Well known essayist Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one that focuses on--and offers alternatives to--the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics covered include José Martí, Fernando Ortiz, and broader concepts of diaspora and memory in the Cuban literary canon. more...









