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(Dis) Forming the American Canon
University of Minnesota Press 1993; US$ 72.00Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourse?s claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African... more...
Acts of Giving
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 109.99Acts of Giving examines issues surrounding donation-the giving of property, particularly landed property-in northern Spain during the tenth century. Exploring the place of giving within a broad complex of social and economic concerns, Wendy Davies highlights the centrality of Spain to some of the core themes of medieval European history. - ;Acts of... more...
African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 147.00Slave narratives were one of the earliest forms of African American writing. These works, autobiographical in nature, later fostered other pieces of African American autobiography. Since the rise of Black Studies in the late 1960s, leading critics have constructed black lives and letters as antitheses of the ways and writings of mainstream American... more...
African's Life, 1745-1797
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 130.00The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African in late 18th-century Britain, is quoted, anthologized and interpreted in dozens of books and articles. More than any single contemporary, Equiano speaks for the fate of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. This study attempts to create a rounded portrait of the man... more...
Ageism
Springer Publishing Company 1999; US$ 60.00In this updated edition, Palmore provides a comprehensive review of many different forms of ageism-including the interesting notion of positive ageism, which projects onto the elderly as a group traditional virtues like wisdom and thrift. He discusses both the individual and social influences on attitudes toward the aged; analyzes institutional patterns... more...
Agency of the Enslaved
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 64.99In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World , D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley explores the importance of the agency displayed by enslaved people and argues that this formed the real basis... more...
Agrarian Reform in Russia
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 76.00This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy. more...
Alchemies of Violence
SAGE India 2004; US$ 64.95The several trading castes known generically as `Marwaris` are among the most powerful and wealthy groups in India. While they have spread throughout India and beyond, their homeland is Rajasthan. This absorbing book explores their origin myths and the manner in which these myths construct and express their social identities. Lawrence Babb draws attention... more...
Amazing Grace
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 10.99Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave... more...









