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The Bear and the Porcupine: The US and Mexico
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Davidow, Jeffrey
Subject: Latin America, U.S. History
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Jeffrey Davidow coined the phrase “the bear and the porcupine”—which has now entered Mexican political discourse—to describe the difficult relationship between the hypersensitive Mexican “porcupine” and the “insensitive” American bear.
In this revised and expanded second edition, Davidow picks up …
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Beauty in Arabic Culture
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Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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Arabic Islamic thought allowed the development of autonomous norms of beauty that were independent of moral or religious criteria. The artistic work was viewed separately from the divine scheme and was free of metaphysical associations.
Beauty, however, had a significant …
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Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages
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Williams, Marty; Echols, Anne
Subject: European History, Women's History
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“A fascinating and highly readable survey.” — Library Journal
“Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings — all find their rightful place in this …
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Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History
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de Barros, Juanita, Audra Diptee and David Trotman (edited by Franklin Knight)
Subject: Caribbean
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In this book, leading scholars pull together some of the most recent research on the key themes of Caribbean history: slavery, the transition to freedom, colonialism, and decolonization. Although all parts of the Caribbean experienced these phases, the manner in …
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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America
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Law, Robin and Paul E. Lovejoy
Subject: Africa, U.S. History, Latin America, Caribbean, History of Slavery
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This is the biography of an American slave who was born in Africa. His adventures took him to Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston, Canada, and Britain; he knew Arabic, Dendi, probably Hausa, Portuguese, English, and French. In recent times …
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Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century
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Blussé, Leonard (translated by Diane Webb)
Subject: World History, European History, Asian History, Women's History
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Book of the Year – Times Literary Supplement
In seventeenth-century Batavia, Cornelia van Nijenroode, the daughter of a geisha and a Dutch merchant in Japan, was known as “otemba” (meaning “untamable”), which made her a heroine to …
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The Bitter Legacy: African Slavery Past and Present
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Klein, Martin, Alice Bellagamba,
Sandra Greene, Editors
Subject: Africa, Slavery
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This collection of essays explores the ways that memories of African slavery and the slave trade persist into the present, as well as the effect those memories have in shaping political, social, economic, and religious behavior today. The …
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Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica
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Zips, Werner (preface by Franklin Knight; translated by Shelley Frisch)
Subject: Africa, Caribbean
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This book chronicles the struggles of African-Americans who escaped from slavery and developed autonomous, “maroon” societies beyond the fringes of the colonial system, demonstrating the vulnerability of colonial rule and the vitality of black resistance in the Caribbean. Illustated with …
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A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs
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Taylor, Susie King (edited by Patricia W. Romero and Willie Lee Rose)
Subject: U.S. History
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“These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain her freedom early in the war, with the education and ability to observe and the will to recall in later …
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