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Identity in the Shadow of Slavery
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95Addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendents interpreted their lives under slavery, thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The focus of the book is on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape... more...
The American Revolution
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 17.99Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people have the right to govern themselves. In this... more...
Crossroads and Cosmologies
UPF 2007; US$ 34.95A far-reaching anthropological study of African and African American religions, German American folkways, and archaeological methodology more...
Rediscovery of North America
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 12.00Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first... more...
Last Call for the Dining Car
Aurum Press 2011; US$ 13.11Ever since Paul Theroux first embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing. These days, with our awareness of the global warming implications of endless air travel and the opportunity to jump on a train at magnificent St Pancras and be whisked straight to the continent,... more...
Unbecoming British
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 25.99What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the Americans about their cultural... more...
Against Massacre
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 39.50Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international... more...
In the Shadow of Slavery
University of California Press 2011; US$ 21.95The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were... more...
Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas, 2-Volume Set
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 185.00When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person?a sailor?set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing a critical role in every region, colony, and country. From Canada to the Caribbean to Chile,... more...
The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789
Potomac Books Inc. 2011; US$ 29.95The creation of American diplomacy and power as an art more...









