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Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

West Indian Rhythm

Es gab keine weltoffenere Insel in der Welt als Trinidad. Der wahre Calypso wurde nur selten außerhalb der Inseln oder der trinidadschen Enklaven in New York oder London gehört. Das Bekenntnis von Decca R…

Black Atlantic Worlds

Landscapes are key to the history of the transformation of Atlantic nations, regions, and ecosystem by Africans and their descendants. Black Atlantic Worlds collects essays that focus on archival silences…

Leslie James

The Moving Word

In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental reporting. But as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony's capacity to self-go…

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866…

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

"... [Zeinab] Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history--from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilizations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the …

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African per…

John Parker

In My Time of Dying

"Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions…

Gregory Carter

Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies

This book examines African heritage, religion, and culture created in the Danish West Indies between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the impact these legacies have on West Africa today.

Miranda Kaufmann

Heiresses

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses---and the role they played in the history of enslavement.Through the eighteenth and ear…

Babayo Sule, Usman Sambo

Election Administration and Reforms in Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo analyse the recent Nigerian election reforms and their impact on the outcome of elections.This book provides a comprehensive analysis of electoral administration in the Fourth …

Terra X: Welten-Saga

Die »Welten-Saga« stellt in sechs Folgen einige der faszinierendsten Orte der Erde vor. Historiker Sir Christopher Clark reist einmal um den Globus und besucht UNESCO-Welterbestätten: Sein Weg führt ihn v…

Terra X: Welten-Saga (Blu-ray)

Die »Welten-Saga« stellt in sechs Folgen einige der faszinierendsten Orte der Erde vor. Historiker Sir Christopher Clark reist einmal um den Globus und besucht UNESCO-Welterbestätten: Sein Weg führt ihn v…

Luke Pepera

Motherland

"Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraord…

Martin Luther King

I Have a Dream American Classics Edition

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American classics drawn from our storied catalog. A beautiful collectible edition of Dr. Mar…

Howard W French

The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-Second World War colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary visi…

César Brioso

Havana Hardball

1947 Cuba, where the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League coincided with Jackie Robinson's spring training on the island before he made his major-league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Joe Street

Black Revolutionaries

"Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party, one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. It highlights the complexity of the BPP's history t…

Brooke N Newman

The Crown's Silence

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family's centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy---from Eliza…