Böcker utgivna av Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

An exploration of African-American freedom fighters in Jamaica, presenting a history of resistance instead of a history of domination. The context of marronage is carefully established: the plantation system as an economic and ideological machine fuelled by the abuse of black working power.

Attempts to provide an overview of African history without getting bogged down in details and data. This book offers an account of the African past, its peoples, and their institutions. It is aimed at general readers who seek to gain an understanding of the major trends and developments.

The author traces the historical and social aspects of eunuchs as he guides the reader through various lands and periods of human history. He demonstrates how eunuchs gave rise to a multiplicity of human behavioural patterns.

A study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author searched for her evidence in a wide variety of sources, such as the Qur'an, legal, religious and Sufi texts, chronicles, biographies, belle-lettres, literary criticism, and scientific, geographic and philosophical literature.

A study of Islam. Using the Koran and other primary sources, Tilman Nagel delves into Islamic history as he traces the development of Islamic doctrine. He explores the centrality of the Koran in Islamic theology and examines its canonization process and the themes of its message.

The history of Arabia is inextricably tied to the history of Islam. This work offers an overview of the history and culture of the Arabs from the first references in the inscriptions of Assyrian kings to the developments of contemporary Arab nations.

Aims to intertwine the socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history.

This book is an objective study of the state of Islam in Senegal and of the religious factors that influence it. Islam in Senegal is characterized by the strong intrenchment of a certain number of Sufi brotherhoods. The book uses its study of the present condition of Senegal's Sufi brotherhoods to speculate on their future evolution.

For over one thousand years foreign powers, such as Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and now Chinese, interfered in African affairs to pursue economic and political gains. This book provides a brief outline of Africa's pre-colonial and colonial history, analyzing the economic, sociopolitical, and cultural fields.

Urban cities have existed in Africa since antiquity. Using archival records and field research, this text analyses and describes the rich history of African cities from long before colonization began until the time of urban reorganization during industrialization.

A survey of the roles women have played in Africa south of the Sahara, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the present-day presidents of Liberia and Malawi. Romero discusses education and religion; the occult and power; diseases and treatment; women and war; and women's increasing presence on the political stage, including their roles as environmental activists.

Offers the author's reflections on Capoeira and Candomble, combining personal experiences with anecdotes, historical facts, and research as well as religious and philosophical interpretations, both Western and non-Western. The result is informative and entertaining, an analysis that allows readers to get a feeling, understanding, and even experience of the spirit of Capoeira and Candomble.

This work explores the origins of Zionism within Jewish tradition, the variety of Zionist ideologies, and the political circumstances that fostered this movement. Jewish immigration to Palestine, shifting British policies, Arab reactions to Jewish settlements, and the impact of the Holocaust are among the book's central topics.

These six essays, three by art historians and three by specialists in Arabic and Persian literature, examine specific instances in which texts and images that would seem to have been intended as one cultural product have traditionally been studied separately.

The Caucasus as meeting point of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christiandom and Islam. The cultures include Greek, Slavic, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, just to name a few. It has served as realm of legend, myth, of wonderment and exotica. Yet at the same time the Caucasus can serve as mirror to the outside, at a site where one can trace the processes that have shaped the broader world.

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

The newly updated and expanded second volume in this fascinating series examines: The Partition of Africa; Collaboration or Resistance to European Rule in Africa; Colonial Rule in Africa; Educating the African Populations; Forging a National Identity; and Exploitation or Development in Africa.

25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the histories of the Akan peoples.

A collection of key essays about the Akan people, their history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. This volume features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives.

The Caucasus is a meeting point of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christiandom and Islam. The cultures include Greek, Slavic, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, just to name a few. It has served as realm of legend, myth, of wonderment and exotica. Yet at the same time the Caucasus can serve as mirror to the outside, at a site where one can trace the processes that have shaped the broader world.

These six essays, three by art historians and three by specialists in Arabic and Persian literature, examine specific instances in which texts and images that would seem to have been intended as one cultural product have traditionally been studied separately.

Offers a full spectrum of emotionally charged theories. Each section presents a set of conflicting arguments to show the state of debates on these highly controversial issues. Extensive commentary by the editors leads the reader through this treasury of theories and dramatically highlights the development of the field.

This is the first reader that goes beyond the fragmentation between Spanish, British, Dutch, and French Caribbean history to explain slavery, emancipation, colonization and decolonization in the region. The contributors to this pan-Caribbean approach are leading scholars in the field, including Franklin Knight and Luis Martinez-Fernandez.

The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the histories of the Akan peoples.

This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya - and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history.

This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya - and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history.

An updated 2013 edition of the classic reader by Robert O. Collins. This collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history.