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By tracing George Washington's development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon, this work answers the riddle of Washington's simultaneous fame and aloofness, arriving at a portrait of Washington as a self-fashioning representative of his turbulent time.

Montgomery Jason, an idealistic African American college student, enlists to fight for freedom and democracy. When he falls in love with a French woman, he learns that freedom and democracy do not apply to black soldiers.

A study of Flowerdew Hundred, a 1000-acre plantation in Virginia. It uses the artifacts unearthed since excavations began in the 1970s to construct some 250 years of life at Flowerdew, and to convey to us what historical archaeology can do.

This text explores the culture of the pre-colonial West African state of Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and European imperialism. Tracing 200 years of history up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in the monarchy and the palace.

These selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency.

A collection of essays concerning meanings of cross-cultural and interracial interactions, this text places all such discussions in local historical context. Analysis is rooted in historical figures and events, and employs a variety of primary sources - from travelogues and photographs to oral.

Divided into four sections, this collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics and modes of criticism. The book is a cohesive introduction to a reading paradigm that continues to affect the ways we think and feel.

Records the results of the author's 11-year study of Gorovodo, the voodoo practised by West Africa's Ewe populations of coastal Ghana, Togo and Benin. The work represents an ethnography of spirit possession that focuses on law and morality in ""medicine voodoo"" orders.