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Santos takes a keen look at the way mass culture has influenced artististic production in Latin America during the past 40 years. This ambitious book is a significant contribution to the study of Latin American literature and art, queer studies, and cultural studies.

The lives of Victor Chambers - born on the battlefield at Gettysburg to a runaway slave - and his mother are chronicled in this book based on letters that Chambers wrote to Rinaldi's great-grandfather, a Civil War veteran, in 1931. The story Rinaldi relates is emblematic of all whose lives were shaped by slavery.

Presents vignettes of the principal actors in Mexico City and sharp profiles of leading U.S. politicians and diplomats to provide an brief analysis of migration and an insightful account of the circumstances that led to Fox's victory.

This title explores the war that followed the US invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 and has been written by Puerto Rico's leading historian.

Examines world history from 1450 to the beginning of the twentieth century. The book begins with an examination of the five newly forming ""gunpowder empires"" and develops the themes of industrialization and the formation of nation-states. The second half of the book covers Europe's growing global power.

A detailed analysis of Puerto Rican society during the Spanish colonial period, highlighting the roles and responsibilities of women and workers. Rather than celebrating the victors, the author has composed the book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed and exploited.

This novel tells the story of Catherine, the slave concubine of a cruel white overseer on Greenside Estate, near Falmouth, whose ruins attest to the tensions of the slave society in Jamaica in the years before emancipation in 1834.

Presents an unbiased overview of Lebanon since 1920, from geography and land squabbles to political leaders and their maneuverings. The book also talks about the murder of Hariri, the Syrian withdrawal of Lebanon and the UN investigation.

From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico derived mainly from the exploitation of slaves. But slavery generated its antithesis: disobedience, conspiracies, uprisings, and flight. This volume deals with these expressions of collective resistance.

Presents the story of territories and populations subdued by a brutal system of social and economic exploitation - a painful heritage shared by generations of Caribbeans. This work points out that the greater Caribbean was geographically, climatically, and strategically well situated for exploitation by commercial powers.

At the outset of the 21st century, the Alawi political is ascendance in Damascus in the south, Israeli dominates the Palestinians and Jordanians. The alteration in the affairs of the Levant through the 20th century since 1920 is in continuous flux. This work attempts to assess the affairs of the Levant, since Roman times.

An important document about Black Africa written by a non-European medieval historian. He wrote disapprovingly of sexual integration in families and of hostility toward the white man. His description is a document of the high culture, pride, and independence of Black African states in the fourteenth century.

This collection of Cuban legends aims to bring readers the best of a time-honoured tradition of storytelling in Cuba. The tales are retold by a diverse group of Cuban literary figures, their stories embracing a broad spectrum of Cuban history from the remote past to the modern era.

An analysis of Islam in India, focusing on the Hindu perspective. It studies the Hindu caste system from its beginnings in antiquity to a guild-like village caste and professional caste system in the Middle Ages, and its continuance within Muslim and colonial societies.

An analysis of pilgrimages to Mecca in the early modern period. The rise of the Mughal and Safavid Perslan empires and the emergence of the Wahhabi movement in Arabia mark the beginning and end points of the study, but the author also draws comparisons with earlier and later periods.

This is the history of the first modern military campaign of the British Empire against an African empire, featuring an international coalition, embedded journalists from all over the world, and an unprecedented military build-up.

The late nineteenth century of the Common Era also marked the end of the thirteenth Islamic century, a time when millions of Muslims - especially in sub-Saharan Africa - fervently expected the arrival of a Mahdi, a 'divinely guided one', who would fill the world with justice and equity and defeat the enemies of Islam.

The politics of Hispanic Caribbean were shaped by revolutions, political coups, wars, and elections, resulting in an end of Spanish power, independent states, and the domination of the region by the United States. These developments led to changes in social values. The author follows these developments throughout the main Hispanic islands.

This work provides an indigenous history without bypassing western historiography. In the pre-Columbian period, it concentrates on the Aztecs, Incas and Mayas, but broadens out to an analysis of all Amerindians.

English translation reprinted from bilingual ed., originally published by: Ann Arbor: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 1975.

An exploration of 12th century mystic, Hildegard of Bingen. The author draws a complex picture of her life and work, and delineates Hildegard's view of the human being as a microcosm of the universe, intricately bound by the senses to the life of the soul, nature, and God.

When and why was the Olympian fire extinguished? Why are there so many arms found in a place that is famous for its Olympian peace? Olympia is situated in the western corner of Greece, so why is it filled with oriental art? This volume deals with these and similar questions about Olympia.

One hundred and fifty years after its publication, this document remains an important source for the study of 19th-century Cuba and especially of slavery in the Caribbean. This edition includes an English translation of the missing chapter on slavery.

African-derived religions enrich all aspects of Cuba's social, cultural, and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. This work discusses the roles of music and dance as forms of Cuban religious expression and describes the specific instruments and symbols they employ.

Jews have often been a marginalized minority, yet they have enriched Africa culturally and economically, serving as innovators and middlemen, government servants and educators. This book covers topics such as Jews in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; Jews in Ethiopia from antiquity to the 20th century; and, Jewish communities in the Muslim world.

Presents the history of one of the powerful empires of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern era. This text traces the political history of the Ottomans from the 14th century to the dissolution of the empires after WWI, and it employs a balanced approach that encompasses economic, social, and cultural history.