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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&apo...

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Originally published in 1970, this is the story of Haiti under the rule of Dr Franois Duvalier. Bernard Diederich lived in Haiti for fourteen years and had personal experience of the early Duvalier days and the period of Maloires rule. His work ex...

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Between 1920 and 1923, American relief workers managed to prevent the massacre of three hundred Armenian orphans at the hands of Turkish and Kurdish troops. One of them, a nurse, kept a diary that illuminated in dramatic detail the struggle agains...

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In this second installment of his autobiography (following Kind dieser Zeit), Klaus Mann describes his childhood in the family of Thomas Mann and his circle, his adolescence in the Weimar Republic, and his experiences as a young homosexual and ear...

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Like Mephisto, Pathetic Symphony is a novel about important artists and their milieu. Drawing his material from documented sources, and without ever distorting historical truth or sacrificing biographical accuracy for the sake of the narrative, Kl...

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A bibliography of over 1500 women who lived between 800 and 1500 AD, listed alphabetically. There are details on their nationalities and brief summaries of available biographical references. The biographical category index allows the reader to fin...

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"A fascinating and highly readable survey." -- Library Journal "Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings -- all find th...

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This work focuses on Chicago from 1892-1905, describing the forces that had remodelled America from the rural society of Lincoln's day. Here are the business leaders, labour organizers and politicians, and new immigrants, all exposing the follies ...

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The book includes two stories by Heinrich Heine, "The Rabbi of Bacherach" and "Shylock," as well as the poem "Hebrew Melodies." This beautiful edition is illustrated with the lithographs of Max Liebermann, one of of t...

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This outstanding family novel, set in a Jewish neighborhood of Chicago, is "the fullest articulation of the generational conflict between Jewish fathers and [sins]," writes Alexander Bloom in his 1986 book Prodigal Sons. The central char...

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"These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain her freedom early in the war, with the education and ability to observe and the will to recall in later years the significance of the events in whi...

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Written while enslaved or shortly after escape, the words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black. Blacks in Bondage is a landmark document in understanding the human side of history.

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This book examines the roles of Latin American women during the 19th through mid-20th centuries and their participation in national movements. It discusses the conflict between the traditional female roles at home and on the public stage. Themes r...

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This volume deals with the works of major women writers in Spanish America and analyzes the novel, the short story, and testimonio writing of the second half of the twentieth century. It places their work in context by highlighting the importance ...

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Northern Nigeria, just before the turn of the century: a time of unrest and civil war, when the trans-Saharan slave trade still flourished. Against this turbulent backdrop is set the story of the Hausa, a black African people who practice the Isla...

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Born a princess Sayyida on the African spice island of Zanzibar, Emily Ruete was brought up in a harem in the Sultan's palace, naturalized as a German through marriage, and then manipulated by both Germans and British in their efforts to gain cont...

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This volume covers five hundred years of history, beginning with the writings of travelers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus, Mungo Park, Heinrich Barth, Ren Caill, and Mary Kingsley, as well as many others. Religious wars are described by chroniclers su...

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This volume covers three thousand years of African history beginning with reports about the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and Kush; ancient and medieval trade routes, including China's discovery of Africa; the history of the east coast; the Nilotic...

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Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th centuries, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence and pressures of the Portugese, the Catholic Church, and slave traders on these blossoming African states. Included ar...

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Memories of Africa, pre-civil war New England, political turmoil in Russia, the end of slavery in Jamaica, and Caribbean pirates; an intrepid black woman experiences many turning points in world history. Nancy Prince paints a blunt picture of the ...

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Perhaps the most illuminating document ever published on American foreign policy in Nicaragua, this book represents a full spectrum of critical perspectives. The first is that of Henry Stimson, whose memoirs as a special envoy to Nicaragua were fi...

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Perhaps the most illuminating document ever published on American foreign policy in Nicaragua, this book represents a full spectrum of critical perspectives.The first is that of Henry Stimson, whose memoirs as a special envoy to Nicaragua were fir...

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This is the remarkable story of two trips by a fugitive slave. One is the dramatic and poignant journey of a humiliated slave up the Mississippi to the North, into freedom. The second is a glorious voyage to Europe of the same man, now an elegant ...

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The irreconcilable differences between Japan and the US in the 1930s and early 1940s are reflected in this annotated selection of diplomatic sources. Documents include the Open Door note of John Hay in 1899, and the President's appeal to Emperor H...

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Among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European "discoverers" of the "Dark Continent," women are rarely mentioned. This anthology of Victorian women's writings on Africa provides a fascinating overview of these women's r...

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Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. The Horrors of Slavery is a vivid record of the history, ideas, and rhetoric of a leader in ...

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A study of women in Islam. The text does not pretend that the society of Islam was dominated by women but illustrates that the world from the classical period to modern times is also a woman's world. There are tales of A'isha, who joined...

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An analysis of 60 years of reporting of economic and social challenges at General Motors. The author compares GM's annual reports year after year, checks continuity, unveils contradictions, and confronts the statements of GM management with report...

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