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Combining historical accounts, both documented and oral, this book explores - through case studies, and through the processes of assimilation, social mobility, and marginalization - the silent history and conflicting identity of Asia's Africans. It shows how African music and dance contributed to the Middle Eastern and South Asian arts scene.

For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one thematic focus, this book also looks at Indian Ocean commercial networks that were more complex in the range of products exchanged, including luxury goods and staple food items, and enforced labor.

The multi-volume chronicle of the Cairo scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1753-1825), known in Arabic as caja-'ib al-atha-r fi- al-tara-jim wa-al-akhba-r, which translates roughly as The Most Wondrous Achievements: Biographies and Reports of Events, is the single most important primary source for the history of Egypt over nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule (1517-1882). This text, compiled by editor Jane Hathaway to appeal to the general reader as well as scholars of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, is a collection of excerpts from al-Jabarti's history, providing a multifaceted overview of Egyptian society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The selections cover key political developments, including various power struggles and the French occupation, and offer telling glimpses of Egyptian society at large: the role of the Muslim scholar-officials and their interaction with the political authorities; the activities of merchants, shopkeepers, peasants, and tribespeople; the status of women and non-Muslims; and popular reaction to warfare, plagues, natural disasters, food shortages, and price increases.A general introduction and a brief introductory passage to each major excerpt help to place this indispensable primary source in its proper historical and social context.Abd al Rahman Al-Jabarti, author (1754-1825) was a renowned Arab historian and writer.Jane Hathaway, editor (Ohio State University) has edited Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt and provided introductions to books such as The Age of the Caliphs by Bertold Spuler and The Golden Age of Islam by Maurice Lombard, both available from Markus Wiener Publishers.

While the Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of the Dominican culture, a later influx of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic Jews from the Dutch Caribbean and Lebanon added further variety. This book acknowledges creolization as the dominant feature of Dominican culture.

Presenting a story of Nicaragua's notorious tyrant, this work paints a portrait of the man against a backdrop of Nicaragua's political structure, social circumstance, and economic background, encompassing its relations with other Central American countries and the ramifications of the civil war of 1978-79.

Investigates the social reality embodied in the colonial relationship between the US and Mexico.

Presents an unbiased overview of Lebanon since 1920, from geography and land squabbles to political leaders and their maneuverings. The book also talks about the murder of Hariri, the Syrian withdrawal of Lebanon and the UN investigation.

The lives of Victor Chambers - born on the battlefield at Gettysburg to a runaway slave - and his mother are chronicled in this book based on letters that Chambers wrote to Rinaldi's great-grandfather, a Civil War veteran, in 1931. The story Rinaldi relates is emblematic of all whose lives were shaped by slavery.

The African Diaspora was a consequence of the enslavement in the interior of West Africa. This work examines the conditions of slavery facing Muslims and converts to Islam both in the central Sudan and in the broader diaspora of Africans. It considers the consequences of European colonization.

A history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through to the 19th century. It includes thumbnail biographies of such figures as Amerigo Vespucci, Raleigh, Toussaint, Miranda, Lafitte, William Walker and de Lessep. This edition also contains an introduction by Norman Girvan.

From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in ""Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History"". This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.

From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in ""Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History"". This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.

This work weaves together details about women in colonial societies in East and Southeast Asia. It provides insights into the rigorous jurisprudence of the day, and sketches the policies of the East India Company.

The main sources for the medieval history of West Africa are to be found in Arabic writings. Here, in English translations, is the sum of what Islamic scholars wrote about West Africa between the 9th and 15th centuries, together with the notes necessary to its evaluation.

An analysis and summary of the events of the Cold War. It discusses different interpretations and provides a selection of essays on the Cold War by well-known politicians and scholars. This third edition draws upon documentation from Soviet archives that was previously unavailable.

This dissertation is written by an African slave. He was brought to Holland by his owner, and educated at the University of Leiden with grants from wealthy burghers. Thereafter he returned to Guinea as a missionary. His analysis presents an intellectual genealogy of Western thought on slavery.

A selection of essays focusing on the main reasons for the economic decline in the Middle East. It discusses climate, geography and religion, with particular emphasis on the military elite, whose contempt for artisans and merchants thwarted positive economic initiatives.

An anthology of Victorian women's writings on Africa. It offers an overview of the roles of women as scholars, missionaries, adventurers, spies and journalists, and gathers examples of their ground-breaking scholarly treatises, popular accounts, letters, articles and adventure stories.

The reader follows the author's experiences of Russia - experiencing local customs, the St. Petersburg flood and the Decembrist revolt - to her time in Jamaica as a missonary to the newly emancipated blacks.

First published: London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1889.

First published in 1894, this was widely acknowledged as the first major novel to emerge from Puerto Rico. The bitter melodrama offers stark contrasts: the beautiful Puerto Rican countryside, a veritable Garden of Eden; yet within it, starved, diseased human beings cling desperately to life.

This volume contains the memoirs of a black woman around the time of the Civil War, caught up with the 33rd United States coloured troops late 1st S.C volunteers.

An account of the golden trade of the Moors, and a source book on Saharan trade routes, caravan organization and Sudanese history. The author covers anthropology and economic geography as well as history, and seeks to encourage and inspire readers to discover more about Africa.

This work surveys major issues in African history through historical document in chronological order.

The politics of Hispanic Caribbean were shaped by revolutions, political coups, wars, and elections, resulting in an end of Spanish power, independent states, and the domination of the region by the United States. These developments led to changes in social values. The author follows these developments throughout the main Hispanic islands.

Presents vignettes of the principal actors in Mexico City and sharp profiles of leading U.S. politicians and diplomats to provide an brief analysis of migration and an insightful account of the circumstances that led to Fox's victory.

Originally published in 1970, this is the story of Haiti under the rule of Dr Francois Duvalier. Bernard Diederich lived in Haiti for fourteen years and had personal experience of the early Duvalier days and the period of Maloire's rule. His work exposes the evil of Duvalier's rule and the tale of how Duvalier undid US policy.