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The Impact of Intervention: The Dominican Republic during the U.S. Occupation of 1916-1924
	Calder, Bruce Subject: Caribbean History, Dominican History, US Foreign Policy	First U.S. paperback edition, spring 2006. Reprint of the 1984 edition with a new, extensive introduction by the author. “A comprehensive and tolerant study, devoid of jargon….Calder, a historian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, fairly describes the mixed … More Information

The Challenges of Public Higher Education in the Hispanic Caribbean
	Canino, Maria J. and Silvio Torres-Saillant, editors Subject: Caribbean	This book examines state policy and higher educational reform in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The dearth of attention to the postsecondary experience of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean makes this a very special contribution to the literature in the … More Information

The Agony of Asar: A Thesis on Slavery by the Former Slave—Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein, 1717–1747
	Capitein, Jacobus (translated by Grant Parker) Subject: Africa, History of Slavery, World History	“Scholars and readers the world over thank Grant Parker for giving us both the first English translation of Capitein’s manuscript and a brilliant analysis of its significance.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Agony of Asar is the first … More Information

Latin American Women’s Narrative: Practices and Theoretical Perspectives
	Castro-Klarén, Sara Subject: Latin America, World Literature	This volume, featuring texts in English and Spanish, deals with the works of major women writers in Spanish America and analyzes the novel, the short story, and testimonio writing of the second half of the twentieth century. It places their … More Information

The History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks
	Çelebi, Kâtip (edited by Svatopluk Soucek) Subject: Middle East, World History	The book at its simplest level is fast-moving adventure story.The book at its simplest level is fast-moving adventure story. It is a breathtaking lesson in the geography and history of that period in which the Ottoman Turks swept past … More Information

Afghanistan on the Threshold of the 21st Century: Three Essays on Culture and Society
	Centlivres, Pierre and Micheline Centlivres-Demont Subject: Middle East	Two prominent anthropologists describe their long “journey” with the Afghan people, a journey that lasted thirty years and was punctuated by the events that caused Afghanistan’s transformation from the monarchic state of Zaher Shah to Daoud’s republic, from the Communist … More Information

Africa: A Short History
	Collins, Robert O. Subject: Africa, Textbook	This is a concise but sweeping account of the African past, its peoples, and their institutions. The book attempts to provide an overview of African history without getting bogged down in details and data. This approach is very useful for … More Information

The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988
	Collins, Robert O. Subject: African History	This is a history of the hydropolitics of the Nile Valley from 1900 to 1988. Attempts to develop the Nile and control its waters are of vital significance to the future of the inhabitants of Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and … More Information

Sudan in Turmoil: Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2003
	Collins, Robert O. and J. Millard Burr Subject: Africa	Sudan was the first Islamist nation created within the larger Sunni community. The authors specifically focus on the activity of Sudanese intellectual Hasan al-Turabi, the eminence gris of the Sudanese Islamist movement and its political guide (murshid). Turabi, a prominent … More Information

Documents from the African Past
	Collins, Robert O., editor Subject: Africa	This fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant’s guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes, China’s discovery of Africa, the slave trade, kingdoms and court life in … More Information

African History in Documents, Vol. I: Western African History
	Collins, Robert O., editor Subject: Africa, Documentary Readers	This volume covers five hundred years of history, beginning with the writings of travelers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus, Mungo Park, Heinrich Barth, René Caillé, and Mary Kingsley, as well as many others. Religious wars are described by chroniclers such as … More Information

African History in Documents, Vol. III: Central and South African History
	Collins, Robert O., editor Subject: Africa, Documentary Readers	Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th centuries, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence and pressures of the Portugese, the Catholic Church, and slave traders on these blossoming African states. Included are reports … More Information

Problems in the History of Modern Africa (Vol. III in the Problems in African History Series)
	Collins, Robert O., editor Subject: Africa	This work continues the saga begun in the first two volumes of the Problems in African History series, Problems in African History: The Precolonial Centuries and Historical Problems of Imperial Africa (both also available from Markus Wiener). With this sweeping … More Information

African History in Documents, Vol. II: Eastern African History
	Collins, Robert O., editor Subject: Africa, Documentary Readers	This volume covers three thousand years of African history beginning with reports about the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and Kush; ancient and medieval trade routes, including China’s discovery of Africa; the history of the east coast; the Nilotic slave trade; … More Information

The History of African Cities South of the Sahara: From the Origins to Colonization
	Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine (translated by Mary Baker) Subject: Africa	*Outstanding Academic Book of the Year 2005, CHOICE* Magazine** Cities have existed in sub-Saharan Africa since antiquity. But only now are historians and archaeologists rediscovering their rich heritage: the ancient ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Congo, the harbor … More Information

Empire, Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean
	Craton, Michael Subject: Africa, Caribbean	The author describes and explains the origins of West Indian slave plantations, plantocracies, and the relationship between plantocrats and Amerindians. He then examines the African background of Caribbean slavery, depicts slave lives and behavior, and discusses modern perceptions of slavery … More Information

The Book of Strangers: Medieval Arabic Graffiti on the Theme of Nostalgia
	Crone, Patricia and Shmuel Moreh, editors Subject: Middle East	A tenth-century Iraqi longing for the happy days of the past took to collecting verse graffiti left behind by travelers and others who did not feel at home where they were in order to console himself. Some of the graffiti … More Information