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“romain rey”

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  • The Priest and the Prophetess

    Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World

    by Terry Rey ...
    By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haïti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. Enter Romaine-la-Prophétesse, a free black Dominican coffee farmer who dressed in women's clothes and claimed that the Virgin Mary was his godmother. Inspired by mystical revelations from the Holy Mother, he amassed a large ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Indigenous Knowledge

    Enhancing its Contribution to Natural Resources Management

    by Professor Paul Sillitoe, Andrew Ainslie, Kojo Amanor, Samara Brock, Stephen Brush, David A. Cleveland, Luisa Cortesi, Michael R Dove, Romain Duda, Roy Ellen0, James Fairhead1, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares2, James Fraser3, Sandrine Gallois4, Chris Hebdon5, Patricia Howard6, Samuel Guindo7, Sascha Huditz8, Amy Leigh Johnson9, Alder Keleman0, J Stephen Lansing1, Melissa Leach2, Rosalinda Hidalgo Ledesma3, Johannes Lehmann4, Francis Michael Ludlow5, Doyle McKey6, Citlalli López Binnqüist7, Paul Van Mele8, Tom van Mourik9, Lars Otto Naess0, Florencia Palis1, Fortunata Panzo Panzo2, Victoria Reyes García3, Delphine Renard4, Gede Sedana5, Christopher Shepherd6, Daniela Soleri7, Dawit Solomon8, Sidi Toure9, Thérèse de Vet0, Wayan Windia1, Gérard Zoundji2, Jeffery W Bentley3 ...
    Indigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource management. It addresses IK's potential in solving issues such as coping with change, ensuring global food supply for a growing population, reversing environmental degradation and promoting sustainable practices. It is ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

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  • The Looting Machine

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  • A Continent for the Taking

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  • Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success

    by Keith C. Holmes ...
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    Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success highlights inventors of color from over seventy countries and five continents. This book took over twenty years to research and documents black inventors from 1769 - 2011. It a must read for parents, students, teachers and librarians. It is most indepth study done on inventors of color to date. ... Read more

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  • The Age of Garvey

    How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

    by Adam Ewing ...
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    A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an ... Read more

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

    Edited by Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Karen Racine ...
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    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

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  • Captain Barnabas Lincoln's True Life Account (1822)

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    Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies

    by Frederick Cooper, Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas Cleveland Holt ...
    In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography — the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the ... Read more

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