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  • - The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831-1865
     
    867,-

    Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.

  • - Poems
    av Idris Anderson
    210,-

    In Doubtful Harbor, Idris Anderson turns wandering into art. From large landscapes to the minutest details, she seeks with each poem to convey the world more clearly, acutely, and exquisitely.

  • - Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800
    av Peter Thorsheim
    323,-

    Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food.

  • - The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831-1865
     
    377,-

    Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.

  • - A Novel
    av Chuma Nwokolo
    271,-

    In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Nwokolo moves across time and continents to deliver a novel that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns.

  • av Michael Henson
    207 - 324,-

    Set in rural America amid an epidemic of opiate abuse, this collection of stories tells of a woman's search for her own peculiar kind of redemption. Addict, thief, and liar, Maggie Boylan is queen of profanity, a hungry trickster. But she is also a woman of deep compassion and strength. Her journey is by turns frightening, funny, and deeply moving.

  • - A Novel
    av Terence A. Harkin
    205 - 417,-

    Brendan Leary, assigned to an Air Force photo squadron an hour from L.A., thinks he has it made. But when the U.S. invades Cambodia and he joins his buddies who march in protest, he is shipped off to an obscure air base in upcountry Thailand.

  • - More Great Flower Breeders of the Past
    av Judith M. Taylor
    311 - 709,-

    Walk into any nursery, florist, or supermarket, and you'll encounter displays of dozens of gorgeous flowers, from chrysanthemums to orchids. At one time these fanciful blooms were the rare trophies of the rich and influential-even the carnation, today thought of as one of the humblest cut flowers.

  • - A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
    av Susan F. Quimpo & Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
    373 - 762,-

    From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters that comprise a family saga of revolution, persistence, and, ultimately, vindication, even as easy resolution eluded their struggles.Subversive Lives tells of attempts to smuggle weapons for the New People's Army (the armed branch of the Communist Party of the Philippines); of heady times organizing uprisings and strikes; of the cruel discovery of one brother's death and the inexplicable disappearance of another (now believed to be dead); and of imprisonment and torture by the military. These stories show the sacrifices and daily heroism of those in the movement. But they also reveal its messy legacies: sons alienated from their father; daughters abused by the military; friends betrayed; and revolutionary affection soured by intractable ideological differences.The rich and distinctive contributions span the martial law years of Ferdinand Marcos's rule. Subversive Lives is a riveting and accessible primer for those unfamiliar with the era, and a resonant history for those with a personal connection to what it meant to be Filipino at that time, or for anyone who has fought political repression.

  • - Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia
    av Jennifer A. Fraser
    435 - 1 017,-

    Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago.

  • av John M. Mugane
    336 - 824,-

    Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world.

  • - A Ghanaian History
    av Carmela Garritano
    350,-

    African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production.

  • - Colonial States and their Environmental Legacies
     
    483,-

    Offers essays that demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of power. In this book, each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exotic nature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally "got their hands dirty" in the business of empire.

  • - Contemporary Film in a Changing Society
    av Valerie K. Orlando
    350,-

    Since 1999 and the death of King Hassan II, Morocco has experienced a dramatic social transformation. This book focuses on Moroccan films produced and distributed from 1999 to the present. It introduces American readers to the richness in theme and scope of the cinematic production of Morocco.

  • av Kenneth J. Mijeski & Scott H. Beck
    350,-

    The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories in Latin American studies today. This book examines the rise and decline of Ecuador's indigenous party, Pachakutik, as it tried to transform the state into a participative democracy.

  • - How a Continent Changed the World's Game
    av Peter Alegi
    443,-

    From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.

  • - Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucuman, 1876-1916
    av Patricia Juarez-Dappe
    495,-

    Two tropical commodities-coffee and sugar-dominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucuman, 1876-1916 presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many Latin American sugar economies.

  • - A History of African Cuisine
    av James C. McCann
    425,-

    Africa's art of cooking is a key part of its history. This title describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine comprise a body of historically gendered knowledge practiced and perfected in households across Africa's diverse human and ecological landscape.

  • av Derek Heng
    377,-

    China has been an important player in the international economy for two thousand years and has historically exerted enormous influence over the development and nature of political and economic affairs in the regions beyond its borders, especially its neighbors.Sino-Malay

  • - A Diary, January to June 1942
    av Theippan Maung Wa
    383,-

    This diary, begun after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and covering the invasion of Burma up to June 1942, is a moving account of the dilemmas faced by the well-loved and prolific Burmese author Theippan Maung Wa (a pseudonym of U Sein Tin) and his family.

  • - Uncovering a Family's Colonial History in Indonesia
    av Inez Hollander
    350,-

    Like a number of Netherlanders in the post-World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware of her family's connections with its Dutch colonial past, including a Creole great-grandmother.

  • - Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State
    av Hiroyoshi Kano
    412,-

    The Indonesian economy, took shape as part of the colonial transformation of the archipelago by the Dutch in the mid-nineteenth century. This book identifies key actors and analyzes long-term changes in agricultural production and rural society, examining how they shaped the national Indonesian economy.

  • - Critical Readings
    av Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
    372,-

    The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women's literature.

  • - Death and the Dead in Modern Brazilian Literature
    av Robert H. Moser
    373,-

    The Carnivalesque Defunto explores the representations of death and the dead in Brazil's collective and literary imagination.

  • - Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
    av Blaine Kaltman
    311,-

    The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status.

  • - Literature, Language, and Identity
    av Alamin Mazrui
    271,-

    Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures.

  • - Angola and Its Neighbors
    av David Birmingham
    311,-

    In this illuminating history, noted historian David Birmingham explains how Angola went from colony to independence, how in the 1990s the Cold War legacy turned to civil war, and how peace finally dawned in 2002.

  • - Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000
    av R. S. Rose
    390,-

    Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil-in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast number of slaves in Brazil became of primary importance.

  • - Career Igbo Women in Contemporary Nigeria
    av Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika
    350,-

    Even with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and personal potentials. Negotiating Power and Privilege is a study of their life choices and the embedded patriarchy and other obstacles in postcolonial Africa barring them from fulfillment.Philomina

  • - Gender and the Fictionalization of History
    av Laura Barbas-Rhoden
    377,-

    What is the relationship between history and fiction in a place with a contentious past? And of what concern is gender in the telling of stories about that past?Writing Women in Central America explores these questions as it considers key Central American texts.

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