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Presents the important issues in the study of modern Africa such as: Decolonization and the End of Empire; Democracy and the Nation-State; Epidemics in Africa: The Human and Financial Costs; Development: Failure or Success; The African Environment: Origins of a Crisis; and, Return of the Empires.

The revolt of African slaves in Iraq from 869 to 883 AD - the revolt of the Zanj - was one of the greatest rebellions in world history and the first major uprising in the history of the African diaspora. In this text Alexandre Popovic offers a study of the revolt and its consequences.

This volume discusses 500 years of western African history, beginning with the writings of travellers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus and Mungo Park. Topics covered include: religious wars; the trans-Sahara and cross-Atlantic slave trade; the French and British colonial periods; and modern times.

By addressing some of the most fundamental issues in Avicenna's psychology, epistemology, natural philosophy and metaphysics, this work aims to make Avicenna's thought more accessible to Latinists and Islamicists alike.

The stories, essays and poems collected in this work show the author's fascination with his ancestral religion. It provides a modern defense of the persecuted Jew.

The multi-volume chronicle of the Cairo scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1753-1825), known in Arabic as caja-'ib al-atha-r fi- al-tara-jim wa-al-akhba-r, which translates roughly as The Most Wondrous Achievements: Biographies and Reports of Events, is the single most important primary source for the history of Egypt over nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule (1517-1882). This text, compiled by editor Jane Hathaway to appeal to the general reader as well as scholars of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, is a collection of excerpts from al-Jabarti's history, providing a multifaceted overview of Egyptian society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The selections cover key political developments, including various power struggles and the French occupation, and offer telling glimpses of Egyptian society at large: the role of the Muslim scholar-officials and their interaction with the political authorities; the activities of merchants, shopkeepers, peasants, and tribespeople; the status of women and non-Muslims; and popular reaction to warfare, plagues, natural disasters, food shortages, and price increases.A general introduction and a brief introductory passage to each major excerpt help to place this indispensable primary source in its proper historical and social context.Abd al Rahman Al-Jabarti, author (1754-1825) was a renowned Arab historian and writer.Jane Hathaway, editor (Ohio State University) has edited Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt and provided introductions to books such as The Age of the Caliphs by Bertold Spuler and The Golden Age of Islam by Maurice Lombard, both available from Markus Wiener Publishers.

Covers the major problems in the field, including classic texts, the research, and controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history. This work includes themes such as: Africa and Egypt; African States and Trade; Islam in Africa; Women in African Societies; and, Slavery in Africa.

The main sources for the medieval history of West Africa are to be found in Arabic writings. Here, in English translations, is the sum of what Islamic scholars wrote about West Africa between the 9th and 15th centuries, together with the notes necessary to its evaluation.

First published in 1894, this was widely acknowledged as the first major novel to emerge from Puerto Rico. The bitter melodrama offers stark contrasts: the beautiful Puerto Rican countryside, a veritable Garden of Eden; yet within it, starved, diseased human beings cling desperately to life.

A description of the arrival and experiences of the Chinese in the Caribbean, also exploring the ways in which the Chinese have adapted to and altered the region. It looks at the discrimination they suffered, their rise to economic success, and their contribution to art, cuisine and literature.

This volume contains the memoirs of a black woman around the time of the Civil War, caught up with the 33rd United States coloured troops late 1st S.C volunteers.

This book examines state policy and higher educational reform in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The authors weigh variables of economic environments, political institutions, and culture as they analyze the evolution of higher educational policy and post-secondary institutional change.

This work surveys major issues in African history through historical document in chronological order.

Anti-Americanism is a far from homogenous phenomenon, even in the Islamic world, where the press would sometimes want to convince us that there is a near-unanimous hostility to the USA. This book, based on a research into Muslim views of the 'Great Satan', shows that far more sophisticated explanations are called for.

Sufism is often overlooked in scholarly consideration of the politics of the Muslim world. This book contains articles that aim to consolidate thinking about the political dimension of Sufism and offer new horizons for scholarly reflection on the role of Sufism in Muslim society.

A study of a single Jewish community in the North-Western Sahara which provides an African-based refutation to the myth of a pre-Zionist ""Golden Era"" between Muslims and Jews. It examines the rise and purge of a Jewish communal outpost of Tlemcen, which lay in the Touat oasis more than a third of the way to Timbuktu.

Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was 1959. 1959 was indeed an historic year during which Fidel Castro's guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. This book traces a pivotal year that began with Fidel Castro's victory in Cuba, triggering reverberations that changed the Caribbean.

Presents Haiti, pearl of the Antilles, during the presidency of General Paul E (Bon Papa) Magloire (1950-56). This work gives us a balanced and unbiased history of Haiti of the period. Those who did not live in this period may be surprised to learn of the other Haiti, the beautiful bygone Haiti in which the future was full of promise.

Conveys the essence of the confirmation hearing which turned into the remarkable seminar on constitutional law in the history of the US Senate.

This work describes how, in Brazil, Catholic priests and the colonial government as early as 1573 allowed and encouraged the African slaves to celebrate Epiphany and the Festival of the Three Kings.

On May 30, 1961, a hail of bullets ended the life of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, known to his countrymen as ""The Goat"", after 31 years of brutal rule over the Dominican Republic. This work is a minute-by-minute account of the plot to kill Trujillo and the wave of revenge that ensued.

This volume provides an international perspective of the types of artificial intelligence research being undertaken in accounting and finance. It contains papers from the 2nd and 3rd International Meetings on Artificial Intelligence in Accounting, Finance and Tax, held in Spain in 1996 and 1997.

In this essay, German-Israeli historian Dan Diner argues that the European consciousness uses America as a metaphor for the dark sides of modernism. He finds an especially aggressive variant of this negative judgement in Germany, the roots of which he traces back to the Romantic period.