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  • Fort Mose, Second Edition

    Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom

    by Kathleen Deagan, Darcie MacMahon, Jane Landers ...
    Series series Florida Humanities Partnership Publications
    The illustrated story of the history and groundbreaking discovery of an important historical site, fully updated on the 30th anniversary of its first publicationMore than 300 years ago, enslaved people of African descent risked their lives to escape from slavery on English plantations in South Carolina. Hearing that Spaniards in Florida promised religious sanctuary, they made their way south to St ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World

    New Sources and New Findings

    Edited by Jane Landers ...
    This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Swedish materials from Europe, Africa and Latin America. Their work draws on legal suits, merchant correspondence, Catholic sacramental records, and rare newspapers dating from the seventeenth through ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Iberian Empires, 1600-1800: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jane Landers ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Iberian Atlantic World, 1600-1800: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jane Landers ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The African American Heritage of Florida

    by David Colburn, Jane Landers ...
    Series series Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series
    The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell ... Read more

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  • Brazil - An Interpretation

    by Gilberto Freyre ...
    A series of lectures on the ethnic and social fusion that makes Brazil the country it is today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deeply Rooted in the Present

    Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos

    by Mary Lorena Kenny ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Black Atlantic Religion

    Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

    by J. Lorand Matory ...
    Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

    by Toby Green ...
    Series Book 118 - African Studies
    The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Radical Moves

    Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

    by Lara Putnam ...
    In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Black behind the Ears

    Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    by Ginetta E. B. Candelario ...
    Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Yucatán's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War

    by Terry Rugeley ...
    Conflicts between native Maya peoples and European-derived governments have punctuated Mexican history from the Conquest in the sixteenth century to the current Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. In this deeply researched study, Terry Rugeley delves into the 1800-1847 origins of the Caste War, the largest and most successful of these peasant rebellions.Rugeley refutes earlier studies that seek to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD