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Adventures in Havana Cuba
Hunter Publishing 2010; US$ 6.99We travel to grow our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people, joining in the festivals and celebrations.... more...
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 29.15"Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World" explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became... more...
Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past
University of Tennessee Press 2012; US$ 57.00In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches—archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical—to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various... more...
The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital
University of California Press 2005; US$ 55.00What 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... more...
Aufstand und Zwangsumsiedlung
Hamburger Edition HIS 2012; US$ 24.24Hauptbeschreibung "Alle Bewohner der ländlichen Gebiete [...] haben sich innerhalb von acht Tagen in von Truppen besetzten Dörfern einzufinden. Wer nach dieser Frist abseits der Befestigungsanlagen aufgegriffen wird, gilt als Aufständischer und wird als solcher bestraft." Mit diesem Befehl zur Zwangsumsiedlung der Zivilbevölkerung vom 21. Oktober... more...
Baltimore '68
Temple University Press 2011; US$ 29.95In 1968, Baltimore was home to a variety of ethnic, religious, and racial communities that, like those in other American cities, were confronting a quickly declining industrial base. In April of that year, disturbances broke the urban landscape along lines of race and class. This book offers chapters on events leading up to the turmoil, the riots,... more...
The Baltimore Book
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 32.95A tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African Americans, and women's history more...
Beyond the Blockade
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 22.95This innovative volume builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues. The chapters included herein span a wide range of subjects across the full chronological spectrum. Most were written by emerging Cuban professionals... more...
Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 39.95While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic , Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and culture of black civic and political activists during... more...
Borders of Equality
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 137.50As a border city Baltimore made an ideal arena to push for change during the civil rights movement. It was a city in which all forms of segregation and racism appeared vulnerable to attack by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's methods. If successful in Baltimore, the rest of the nation might follow with progressive and... more...









