Ballantine Books, October 1987. Mass Market PaperBack. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister... More about The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley
South African Institute of Race Relations, January 1990. Paper Back. More about Beating apartheid and building the future
University of Georgia Press, September 2011. Trade Paperback. Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of..... More about The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Univ Tennessee Press, January 2009. Hardcover. The eleventh volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk contains some of the most consequential and interesting material in the series. Failure to restore diplomatic relations with Mexico, the advent of the Mexican-American war, British preparations for war over the Oregon country, the... More about Correspondence of James K. Polk, Vol. 11: Volume 11, 1846 (Utp Correspondence James Polk
University of Tennessee Press, April 2004. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk s correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas... More about Correspondence of James K. Polk: July - December 1845 (Correspondence of James K Polk
Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 2009. Hardcover. For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil... More about Counterfeit Justice: The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne (Conflicting Worlds:...
Bison Books, February 2001. Paper Back. On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of... More about The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History
The University of the West Indies Press, June 2014. Trade Paperback. Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African diasporas. By providing a panoramic view across time and geographical space this collection of essays illustrates the inherent variability of African... More about Dimensions of African and Other Diasporas
Penn State University Press, June 2014. Trade Paperback. Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her... More about Emilie Davis's Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, May 2007. Trade Paperback. What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to... More about Engaging Europe: Rethinking a Changing Continent
Brill Academic Publishers, May 2006. Hardcover. This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of... More about The Faces of Freedom: The Manumission And Emancipation of Slaves in Old World And New World...
Easton Press, January 1992. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Moire endpapers. Slight discoloration to the design on the front cover. More about Great Presidential Decisions [Easton Press
University of Wisconsin Press, September 1991. Trade Paperback. The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies, and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention of historians, political economists... More about Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century
Hoover Institution Press, September 1986. First Edition. Cloth. The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of... More about The Last Empire: Nationality and the Soviet Future (Hoover Institution Press Publication
George Lane, January 1841. Hardcover. Hinges weak. Foxing. Ownership name/date (1841) in ink. Otherwise, solid. More about The Life of Rev. John Emory, D.D
MerwinAsia, August 2015. Trade Paperback. This is a collection of memoirs by more than fifty Chinese who as young people during the rule of Mao Zedong were rusticated to Hainan Island to clear the jungle for rubber plantations. The stories tell of suffering, hardship and disillusionment, but also of joys... More about Mao's Lost Children: The Stories of Those Who Were Rusticated During the Cultural Revolution
Bedford Books, March 2002. Trade Paperback. This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's 1901 novel about racial conflict in a Southern town features an extensive selection of materials that place the work in its historical context. Organized thematically, these materials explore caste, gender, and race after Reconstruction; postbellum laws and... More about Marrow of Tradition
Podzun-Pallas, January 1987. Hardcover. Clean & solid without markings in dust jacket. In German. More about MILITARIA
Oxford University Press-India, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Light edge wear and shelf wear on the cover. Binding tight. Text clean and clear. More about Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia (Oxford India Paperbacks
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Hardcover. This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end... More about Napoleon: On War
Israel Information Services, July 1967. Paper Back. Stapled Pamphlet. More about The Record of Aggression 1958 - 1967
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, April 1991. Trade Paperback. Originally published by Harvard University Press,1982. Light shelf wear. One corner of the print block lightly bumped. Text clear, no notes or underlining. More about Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching
Institute of Art and Law, November 2007. Paper Back. During the Second World War Nazi agencies plundered Europe's archival heritage - from key documentation of military intelligence to trade-union records, files of Masonic lodges and Jewish Communities, and personal papers of prominent individuals.With the end of the war, the Red... More about Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues
Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More about Selected Utterances of Marcus Moziah Garvey 'Africa For the African'
Modern Library, January 1959. Cloth. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. More about Six Plays by Corneille and Racine: The Cid; Cinna; Phaedra; Andromache; Britannicus; Athaliah....
