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A major Shi'i Muslim community with a long and eventful history, the Ismailis were until recently studied primarily on the basis of the accounts of their enemies, including the Sunni polemicists and the Crusader chroniclers. As a result, a host of legends were disseminated on the teachings and practices of the Ismailis. The study of Ismailism began to be revolutionized from the 1930s, with the recovery of a large number of Ismaili texts preser...

The first general history of Jamaica to be written in almost 40 years. It differs significantly from earlier "imperial” histories which have been written from the perspective of the coloniser and which have relegated Jamaicans to an inferior and passive role. In this book, the authors offer a new interpretation of Jamaica's history. The central theme is the long struggle of the African-Jamaican against subjugation, injustice, economic deprivat...

A collection of documents by black American slaves, written while enslaved or shortly after escape. The words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black, and offer glimpses into the interior lives of a number of American slaves.

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

A study of slavery in ancient Greece and Italy. Sir Moses Finley discusses how slave societies came into being and considers the moral, social and economic underpinnings that allowed them to prosper. He also compares ancient slave societies with their more modern counterparts in the New World.

This is the remarkable story of two trips by a fugitive slave: his dramatic andesperate journey up the Mississippi to the North into freedom, and his glorious voyage as an eloquent ambassador of the abolitionists to Europe. Includes two books in one. Illustrated.

-A biography of Santiago Perez Triana, a Columbian author, journalist, and diplomat---Provided by publisher.

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A study of a single Jewish community in the North-Western Sahara which provides an African-based refutation to the myth of a pre-Zionist "Golden Era" between Muslims and Jews. It examines the rise and purge of a Jewish communal outpost of Tlemcen, which lay in the Touat oasis more than a third of the way to Timbuktu.

When the author, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, was a lad, his country was a British Crown Colony, and its government offered one university scholarship a year to the entire population. Young Williams became an authority on West Indian history and founded the People's National Movement Party. This is an autobiography of the author.

Emily Ruete was born in 1840 as Princess Sayyida of Zanzibar. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this memoir offers a portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life, not only in the palace, but in the city and plantations as well.

Several civilizations have risen, flourished, and fallen in the valley of the Nile, each with its own religion, language, culture, institutions, and style of life. Yet beneath them all a basic unity persisted - the love of tales and the manner of telling them. This work covers such tales.

On May 30, 1961, a hail of bullets ended the life of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, known to his countrymen as "The Goat", after 31 years of brutal rule over the Dominican Republic. This work is a minute-by-minute account of the plot to kill Trujillo and the wave of revenge that ensued.

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Santiago Pérez Triana was a Colombian author, journalist, and diplomat who became one of the leading proponents of pan-American unity and crusaders against European intervention in the western hemisphere. He led a dramatic globetrotting life and became one of Latin America's best-known public figures, but his work has been largely overlooked in recent years, until the arrival of this biography.

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. His autobiography is a vital indictment of an execrable system.

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 slave trade, kingdoms and court life in inner east Africa, and the appearance of Indian and white settlers, and merchants and colonialists. The authors of the texts include important local authoritie...

Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their successors during antiquity and the Middle Ages. At the turn of the millennium, Central Asia became the Turkish center of rule. After the Turkish expansion, political rule belonged to the Turks, but the culture remained Iran...

The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the histories of the Akan peoples.

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