Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniar...

Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes th...

¿The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main int...

¿Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the Europe...

This book describes and analyzes the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past...

This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth cen...

Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the...

By the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century, China was in turmoil, f...

A moving collection of myths and tales, Afro-Cuban Myths was first published in 1938 under the ti...

Gustavus Vassa (alias Olaudah Equiano, the African) was on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movem...

This book spans the Turkish Empire¿s expansion from the conquest of Constantinople to that of Cre...

The history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that focuses o...