Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830 0714645753, 9780714645759

Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain 9780822386445

In the 1980s—at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities—the

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Black Writers in Britain 1760-1890 9781474467971

Extracts from the work of 19 Afro-British, Black American, and Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain during the pe

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Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain 9780520971950

In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility

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Marriage in Black: The Pursuit of Married Life among American-born and Immigrant Blacks 1138497657, 9781138497658

Despite the messages we hear from social scientists, policymakers, and the media, black Americans do in fact get married

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Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s 9780773572041

A sixteen-year-old slave boy who finds freedom in a most unusual way, a teenage prostitute who does not, a business mana

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Reconstructing the Past: Studies in Mesoamerican and Central American Prehistory 9781841717517, 9781407329840

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Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories [Course Book ed.] 9781400825271

Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins

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Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World 0807829099, 9780807829097, 9780807876565

All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteen

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Blacks in Power: A Comparative Study of Black and White Elected Officials 9781400885848

This book examines the remarkable increase of blacks at all levels of political life and makes the first systematic comp

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Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone 9789048551972

Early Medieval Britain is more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island.

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