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A detailed analysis of Puerto Rican society during the Spanish colonial period, highlighting the roles and responsibilities of women and workers. Rather than celebrating the victors, the author has composed the book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed and exploited.

Heinz Halm offers a compact and comprehensible overview of the history and culture of the Arabs from the first references in the inscriptions of Assyrian kings to the most recent developments of contemporary Arab nations.

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.

From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico derived mainly from the exploitation of slaves. But slavery generated its antithesis: disobedience, conspiracies, uprisings, and flight. This volume deals with these expressions of collective resistance.

Presents the story of territories and populations subdued by a brutal system of social and economic exploitation - a painful heritage shared by generations of Caribbeans. This work points out that the greater Caribbean was geographically, climatically, and strategically well situated for exploitation by commercial powers.

African cults and religions enrich all aspects of Cuba's social, cultural and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. This title provides a guide to the various traditions and branches of Afro-Cuban religions. It distinguishes between the two important cult forms - the Regla de Ocha (Santeria), and the traditional oracles.

An important document about Black Africa written by a non-European medieval historian. He wrote disapprovingly of sexual integration in families and of hostility toward the white man. His description is a document of the high culture, pride, and independence of Black African states in the fourteenth century.

This collection of Cuban legends aims to bring readers the best of a time-honoured tradition of storytelling in Cuba. The tales are retold by a diverse group of Cuban literary figures, their stories embracing a broad spectrum of Cuban history from the remote past to the modern era.

This is the history of the first modern military campaign of the British Empire against an African empire, featuring an international coalition, embedded journalists from all over the world, and an unprecedented military build-up.

The first four chapters of the original book were translated in 1831 by James Mitchell.

The late nineteenth century of the Common Era also marked the end of the thirteenth Islamic century, a time when millions of Muslims - especially in sub-Saharan Africa - fervently expected the arrival of a Mahdi, a 'divinely guided one', who would fill the world with justice and equity and defeat the enemies of Islam.

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.

This work provides an indigenous history without bypassing western historiography. In the pre-Columbian period, it concentrates on the Aztecs, Incas and Mayas, but broadens out to an analysis of all Amerindians.

English translation reprinted from bilingual ed., originally published by: Ann Arbor: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 1975.

An exploration of 12th century mystic, Hildegard of Bingen. The author draws a complex picture of her life and work, and delineates Hildegard's view of the human being as a microcosm of the universe, intricately bound by the senses to the life of the soul, nature, and God.

In the twentieth century, north-central Namibia experienced both dramatic deforestation and reforestation as a result of population pressure. This title focuses on evaluating environmental change against a base line to assess whether the outcome is environmentally neutral or whether it constitutes environmental degradation or improvement.

An edition that extends the narrative from 1990 to the first decade of the 21st century, beginning with the collapse of the Dominican economy. It includes chapters that focus on financial crises, the economic reforms of the 1990s, the free trade agreement with the United States, and party politics.

One hundred and fifty years after its publication, this document remains an important source for the study of 19th-century Cuba and especially of slavery in the Caribbean. This edition includes an English translation of the missing chapter on slavery.

African-derived religions enrich all aspects of Cuba's social, cultural, and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. This work discusses the roles of music and dance as forms of Cuban religious expression and describes the specific instruments and symbols they employ.

Jews have often been a marginalized minority, yet they have enriched Africa culturally and economically, serving as innovators and middlemen, government servants and educators. This book covers topics such as Jews in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; Jews in Ethiopia from antiquity to the 20th century; and, Jewish communities in the Muslim world.

Presents the history of one of the powerful empires of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern era. This text traces the political history of the Ottomans from the 14th century to the dissolution of the empires after WWI, and it employs a balanced approach that encompasses economic, social, and cultural history.

No country in the Islamic Middle East presents as unique and distinguished a history and culture as Iran. The author presents the history of this country from the Islamization of the 7th century and describes the cultural, social, and religious developments that shaped Iran and the Iranian self-image.

An exploration of African-American freedom fighters in Jamaica, presenting a history of resistance instead of a history of domination. The context of marronage is carefully established: the plantation system as an economic and ideological machine fuelled by the abuse of black working power.

Attempts to provide an overview of African history without getting bogged down in details and data. This book offers an account of the African past, its peoples, and their institutions. It is aimed at general readers who seek to gain an understanding of the major trends and developments.

The author traces the historical and social aspects of eunuchs as he guides the reader through various lands and periods of human history. He demonstrates how eunuchs gave rise to a multiplicity of human behavioural patterns.

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.