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¿The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main int...

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This volume covers five hundred years of history, beginning with the writings of travelers Ibn Ba...

Perhaps the most illuminating document ever published on American foreign policy in Nicaragua, th...

An oil boycott was the crucial factor in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was organized by the U.S....

This book remains an up-to-date and engrossing document more than one hundred fifty years after i...

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A Muslim curator and archivist who preserves in his native Timbuktu the memory of its rabbi. An e...

The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eas...

Before World War II, Germany intended to set up a greater Arabia under the influence of the Axis ...

Haiti¿s dramatic history, pressing social problems, and rich culture make it one of the most fasc...

A history of the Muslim countries. It begins with Rome and Persia and the pre-Islamic Bedouins an...

This book depicts the history of Lamu, once an important East African port city, now known as an ...

This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth cen...

Offers the author's reflections on Capoeira and Candomblé, combining personal experiences with an...

¿These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain he...

This fascinating study of eunuchs guides readers as they travel through various lands and periods...

This book is a study of the state of Islam in Senegal and of the religious factors that influence...

First published by E.J. Brill (The Netherlands) in 1969 as Geschichte der Islamischen Länder, thi...

Arabic Islamic thought allowed the development of autonomous norms of beauty that were independen...

This work continues the saga begun in the first two volumes of the Problems in African History se...

Emeric Bergeaud¿s Stella (1859), the first Haitian novel ever published, combines descriptions of...

The philosopher and physician Abû ¿Alî al-Husayn ibn ¿Abdallâh ibn Sînâ (d. 1037 c.e.), known in ...

This collection of Cuban legends, compiled by the renowned essayist and literary critic Salvador ...

This book is about the world in which the French general Marie-Louis Ferrand thrived and in which...

Once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East, Lebanon in the late 1980s was considered a fail...

This work focuses on Chicago from 1892-1905, describing the forces that had remodelled America fr...

Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes th...

Mayan manuscripts and stone glyphs from pre-Columbian times are among the few historical document...

While Jews have long had a presence in Ethiopia and the Maghreb, Africäs newest Jewish community ...

The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana ...

Jeffrey Davidow coined the phrase ¿the bear and the porcupine¿¿which has now entered Mexican poli...

This is the terrifying history of how Dr. François ¿Papa Doc¿ Duvalier used terrorism to reach po...

This book describes and analyzes the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past...

This book covers significant themes explaining the practice of Islamic law.The first essay treats...

The third volume in this highly acclaimed series examines world history from 1450 to the beginnin...

A moving collection of myths and tales, Afro-Cuban Myths was first published in 1938 under the ti...

From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the ...

The late 19th century of the Common Era also marked the end of the 13th Islamic century, a time w...

Gustavus Vassa (alias Olaudah Equiano, the African) was on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movem...

Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopi...

This timely book is the first to cover the history of Jews from the times of Alexander the Great ...

The final volume in this highly acclaimed series ushers in the twentieth century, the bloodiest i...

This book brings together 11 essays on Islamic political thought by Bernard Lewis, the acknowledg...

Roberto Clemente, the first Latino baseball superstar, died on December 31, 1972, when his plane ...

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