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Pilgrimage to Mecca: The Indian Experience, 1500–1800
	Pearson, Michael N. Subject: Asia, Middle East, Religion	For over a thousand years, tens and hundreds of thousands of Muslim Indians have been making the pilgrimage to Mecca, the annual Hajj. In the early modern period, they followed a route over the Indian Ocean, producing an entanglement of … More Information

Busha’s Mistress: A Stirring Romance from the Days of Slavery in Jamaica
	Perkins, Cyrus Francis (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Verene Shepherd and David Trotman) Subject: Caribbean, World Literature	This is one of the earliest Caribbean novels written in English. The novel tells the story of Catherine, the slave concubine of a cruel white overseer on Greenside Estate, near Falmouth, whose ruins today attest to the tensions of a … More Information

Jihad: A History in Documents (2016 Expanded Edition)
	Peters, Rudolph F. Subject: Religion, Middle East	This updated and expanded 2016 edition of the classic text on Muslim thinking about war and peace features new chapters on jihad after 9/11, including translations and analyses of fatwas from ISIS and al-Qaeda. “Helps us understand the wider … More Information

History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Caribbean	Updated and Expanded *Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, CHOICE* Magazine** One of Puerto Rico’s leading historians, Fernando Picó has had tremendous influence over our currect understanding of Puerto Rican society. Here, he examines the ways in … More Information

One Frenchman, Four Revolutions: General Ferrand and the Peoples of the Caribbean
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Caribbean	This book is 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 … More Information

Puerto Rico 1898: The War After the War
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Latin America, Caribbean	Picó’s text was originally published in Spanish in 1987, as one of several works written in the late-1990s marking the centennial of the Spanish-American-Cuban War of 1898 and its consequences for Puerto Rico. When the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico in … More Information

Puerto Rico Inside and Out: Changes and Continuities
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Caribbean	The essays in this book deal with continuity and change in Puerto Rico and together constitute a delightful San Juan reader from a thoughtful historian’s point of view. The themes range from Puerto Rican events as seen from Paris, to … More Information

The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th Century
	Popovic, Alexandre (introduction by Henry Louis Gates) Subject: Africa, Middle East, History of Slavery	The revolt of African slaves in Iraq from 869 to 883 C.E.* – the revolt of the Zanj – was one of the great rebellions of world history and the first major uprising in the history of the African diaspora. … More Information

A Black Woman’s Odyssey Through Russia and Jamaica: The Narrative of Nancy Prince
	Prince, Nancy (introduction by Ronald Walters; edited by Patricia Romero) Subject: Africa, Europe, U.S. History, Caribbean, History of Slavery, Women's History	Memories of Africa, pre-civil war New England, political turmoil in Russia, the end of slavery in Jamaica, and Caribbean pirates; an intrepid black woman experiences many turning points in world history. Nancy Prince paints a blunt picture of the struggle … More Information

Policing Accounting Knowledge: The Market for Excuses Affair
	Puxty, Tony and Tony Tinker Subject: Accounting	What becomes “knowledge” in accounting research is primarily what is published in leading journals. One source of contention is the extent to which the institutional structure of access to academic media affects and might spread the public validity of knowledge … More Information