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Subject: World History
Human Drama Series, Volumes I through IV
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Johnson, Jean and Donald Johnson
Subject: Text Books, World History
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In this four-part series, the authors present the development of humankind across cultures and economies, in a global manner from ancient times on, as a gigantic drama played out with the cradles of civilization as the stage. The past involves …
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Ibn Battuta in Black Africa
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Ibn Battuta, Abu Abdalla (edited by Said Hamdun and Noël Q. King)
Subject: Africa, Middle East, World History
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Abu Abdalla ibn Battuta (1304–1354) was one of the greatest travelers of pre-modern times. He traveled to Black Africa twice. He reported about the wealthy, multi-cultural trading centers of the African East coast, such as Mombasa and Kilwa, and the …
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Japan’s Economy: A Bibliography of Its Past and Present
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Wray, William D.
Subject: Asia
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This useful bibliography covers Early Modern Japan (Tokugawa period through the Restoration era), Modern Japan (1868-1945, World War II, the Occupation and Postwar eras) and Contemporary Japan.
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Life in a Haitian Valley
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Herskovits, Melville J. (introduction by Sidney W. Mintz)
Subject: Caribbean
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This book is a precious document in the intellectual history of the black Americas. Its author was surely the first academically respectable white scholar to take seriously the cultural achievements of Afro-Americans, throughout the hemisphere. His influence is still keenly …
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Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants
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Levtzion, Nehemiah and Jay Spaulding, editors
Subject: Africa
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This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth century from the viewpoint of Arab geographers, historians, and travelers. The first reports in written Arabic sources deal with urban west African …
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Memoirs of a Janissary
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Mihailović, Konstantin (edited by Svat Soucek; translated by Benjamin Stolz)
Subject: Europe, Middle East
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Konstantin Mihailović, born a Christian Serb in the early 15th century, was kidnapped by Ottoman Turks and brought to Anatolia, where he was trained as a Janissary — a member of the elite corps of the Ottoman army made up …
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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
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Ruete, Emily (edited by Patricia Romero)
Subject: Middle East
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Born a princess Sayyida on the African spice island of Zanzibar, Emily Ruete was brought up in a harem in the Sultan’s palace, naturalized as a German through marriage, and then manipulated by both Germans and British in their …
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