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  • State and Revolution in Cuba

    Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940

    by Robert Whitney ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation’s political evolution, yet they are often glossed over in accounts that focus more heavily on the revolution of 1959. With this book, Robert Whitney accords much-needed attention to a critical ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Unspoken

    Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth

    Edited by Whitney Roberts Hill, Elizabeth Ferris ...
    Unspoken is a long-overdue anthology, gathering the voices of twenty-nine writers whose lives have been affected by infertility, pregnancy loss, and infant death.From the chronicle of a father's love for his lost daughter to poetry exploring the journey of a woman supporting her wife through IVF, from the terror of losing a pregnancy to the heartbreak of twins born too early to survive, from an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Silencing the Past

    Power and the Production of History

    by Michel-Rolph Trouillot ...
    **20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Discover the pioneering classic of history, anthropology, and post-colonial studies—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.Part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck**Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Theatres of Memory

    Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

    by Raphael Samuel ...
    When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives.In this remarkable book, Samuel looks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Book of Salsa

    A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

    Translated by Frances R. Aparicio, Jackie White ...
    by César Miguel Rondón ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music — and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production — was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy César ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Citizenship from Below

    Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    Series series Next wave : new directions in women's studies
    Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500–2000

    Edited by Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Karen Racine ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • History Beyond the Text

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Love Child

    A Genealogist's Guide to the Social History of Barbados

    by L.E. Salazar ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction. Take yourself on a journey to early Barbados, the place where many of the founding fathers of colonial America with  thousands of settlers sojourned and catch a glimpse of early colonial life.  If you like to think for yourself this book will be your compass as you uncover the secret connection  of the people known as 'Red Legs' or Red Shanks in North America; and ... Read more

    $8.84 USD

  • The Libertine Colony

    Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

    by Doris L Garraway ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of the cultural contact, creolization, and social transformation ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Fordham

    A History and Memoir, Revised Edition

    by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. ...
    Fordham University is the quintessential American-Catholic institution—and one now looked upon as among the best Catholic universities in the country. Its story is also the story of New York, especially the Bronx, andFordham’s commitment to the city during its rise, fall, and rebirth. It’s a story of Jesuits, soldiers, alumni who fought in World Wars, chaplains, teachers, and administrators who ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Imagined Island

    History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola

    by Pedro L. San Miguel ...
    Translated by Jane Ramírez ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these two nations are the result of imaginary contrasts between the two nations drawn by historians, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD