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Explores the question of how free and enslaved Africans and secret Jews interacted in daily life. The book focuses on two stories that exemplify the sexual, religious and commercial contacts between the castes.

Native Americans supplied the maracas, African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, clarinets and ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs. Cuban culture represents a convergence of these diverse backgrounds, and the musical heritage presented in this book reflects these traditions.

Until recently, Morocco was thought of as a stable pro-Western kingdom and safe tourist destination. Beginning in the 1990s, however, political Islam has brought about turmoil in Morocco. This title highlights the new situation in Morocco and its effects on Europe, including the immigration of an often unwelcome, impoverished Moroccan underclass.

This study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. It shows that the Europeans were normally not considered dangerous invaders by local populations until they threatened the traditional cultures with missionaries, European schools, and bureaucracy.

In this updated and expanded edition of the 2016 The Kurds: A Modern History, Michael Gunter adds over 50 new pages that recount and analyze recent political, military, and economic events from 2016 to the end of 2018.

Records the journey of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan jurist who travelled to the East, and offers fascinating details into the cultures and dynamics of the region, along with a first-hand account of increased globalisation due to the rise of Islam, and the relationship between the Western world, India, and China in the 14th century.

Chronicles the observations of Chinese travellers who travelled to the Turkish Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century, and features the notes of historical figures including Shi Zhaoji, the first Chinese ambassador to the US, and Hu Hanmin, an early leader in the Kuomintang.

Examines the ways in which developments in the courts and commercial centers of the Americas, Europe, and Africa have affected the common people of Puerto Rico, who have tried since the nineteenth century to take control of their political, social and economic lives.

Original title: A history of Latin America.

For two hundred years Simon Bolivar has been a political idol of and symbolic figure for both left and right politicians. The author examines the real historical figure, as well as the dimensions of the myth around him.

Originally published as: Geschichte der Amistad. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2012.

The world's newest Jewish community is located in Nigeria, where upwards of 20,000 Igbos have embraced Judaism.

About the world in which the French general Marie-Louis Ferrand thrived and in which he ultimately lost his life. He can be seen as an overarching link between the four revolutions from 1775 to 1825 through which he lived.

Offers teachers of African history with fully annotated translations of important Greek and Roman sources for the history of these two ancient African civilizations. This edition gives coverage of the history of Kush and Axum. It also includes a chapter that treats the origins of the kingdom of Kush and its relations with Egypt and Persia.

Stella, the first Haitian novel, combines descriptions of moving scenes with factual accounts of the 13 years of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804). It is an epic saga. Chapter headings refer to major events in Haiti's history and major historical figures are present. The allegorical figures are mainly episodic and are meant to hold the plot together.

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.

The 19th century was a time of great political and economic upheaval in the Caribbean. The Sephardic Jews of Curacao were active participants in this changing environment. They were traders, politicians, doctors, and lawyers, each contributing in their own way to the growth of the countries that became their homes. This book tells their stories.

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.

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

Throughout the 1990s, the Sudanese intellectual Hasan al-Turabi dominated not just domestic policy, during which time Sudan was transformed into an Islamic nation, but also foreign policy. In a power struggle, President al-Bashir and the military reassumed control over Sudan in 2003 and put al-Turabi, a former ally, under arrest.

Features essays that deal with continuity and change in Puerto Rico. This title presents a window onto San Juan's cultural mosaic. It records descriptions of older Puerto Ricans and reflects on turning points in Puerto Rican history. It also describes bus riding etiquette and documents how neighborhoods are changing.

In the 1930s, Puerto Rico was economically and culturally a nineteenth-century agrarian state dominated by sugar and coffee plantations. Then came the New Deal, and the island changed forever. This transformation was neither easy nor without resistance. This title leads the reader through this upheaval with its ups and downs.

Tells the life history of Benjy Lopez which includes Benjy Lopez' return and life in Puerto Rico as a successful businessman. This autobiographical account exposes the half-truth that the typical experience of the ordinary Puerto Rican transposed to New York City, is exclusively defined by privation, fear, prejudice, and culture shock.

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.

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.

This title explores the war that followed the US invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 and has been written by Puerto Rico's leading historian.

Examines world history from 1450 to the beginning of the twentieth century. The book begins with an examination of the five newly forming ""gunpowder empires"" and develops the themes of industrialization and the formation of nation-states. The second half of the book covers Europe's growing global power.