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Cuban Music

Maya Roy

• Paperback | Engels
• Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets ... Lees meer

Jews of Nigeria

William F S Miles

• Paperback | Engels
• While Jews have long had a presence in Ethiopia and the Maghreb, Africa's newest Jewish community of note is in Nigeria, where upwards of twenty thous... Lees meer

Women in the Islamic World

Irene Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book describes and analyzes the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past and present. Starting with Sharia regulations and th... Lees meer

The Saudi Kingdom

Ali Al Shihabi

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Saudi Kingdom: Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil presents a candid and insightful analysis of Saudi Arabia's political instability i... Lees meer

Nationalist Heroines

Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim

• Paperback | Engels
• From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of A... Lees meer

The Ottoman Empire

Saraiya Faroqhi, Suraiya Faroqhi

• Paperback | Engels
• In a concise and colorful style, Suraiya Faroqhi lays out the history of one of the most powerful empires of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern... Lees meer

The Heritage of Central Asia

N Richard Frye

• Paperback | Engels | Selected Reading Lists and Course Outlines from American Col
• Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part ... Lees meer

Capoeira and Candomblé

Floyd Merrell

• Hardcover | Engels
• Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candomblé is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and Af... Lees meer

West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World

John O Hunwick

• Paperback | Engels
• West Africa is defined as the area south of the Sahara between the Atlantic and Lake Chad, encompassing the Sahel zone, tropical forests, and pasturel... Lees meer

Akan Peoples in Africa and the Diaspora

Kwasi Konadu

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is a collection of key essays about the Akan people, their history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West Africa, predominat... Lees meer

Pathetic Symphony

Klaus Mann

• Paperback | Engels
• Like Mephisto , Pathetic Symphony is a novel about important artists and their milieu. Drawing his material from documented sources, and without ever ... Lees meer

The Underground World of Secret Jews and Africans

Jonathan Schorsch

• Paperback | Engels
• Spanish colonial society was divided into a caste system based on race and religion. Slaves comprised the lowest caste, leading some to seek power thr... Lees meer

Beauty in Arabic Culture

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton the Middle East
• Arabic Islamic thought allowed the development of autonomous norms of beauty that were independent of moral or religious criteria. The artistic work w... Lees meer

Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology

Moses I Finley

• Paperback | Engels
• Slaves have been exploited in most societies throughout human history. There have, however, been only five genuine slave societies, and of these, two ... Lees meer

From Berber State to Moroccan Empire

Maya Shatzmiller

• Paperback | Engels
• Medieval Fez was a main center of education, art, and commerce from the 13th to the 16th centuries after the Berber tribe of the Marīnids seized power... Lees meer

Shaihu Umar

Abubaker Tafawa Balewa

• Paperback | Engels
• Northern Nigeria, just before the turn of the century: a time of unrest and civil war, when the trans-Saharan slave trade still flourished. Against th... Lees meer

Political Cartoons in the Middle East

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Series on the Middle East
• The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous com... Lees meer

Caribbean, Sea of the New World

German Arciniegas

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is a new edition of the most beautifully written history of the Caribbean from the European discovery through the nineteenth century. Common... Lees meer

Harem Ghosts

Douglas Scott Brookes, Ali Ziyrek

• Paperback | Engels
• In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveal... Lees meer

A Massacre Averted

Mary Super

• Paperback | Engels
• Between 1920 and 1923, American relief workers managed to prevent the massacre of three hundred Armenian orphans at the hands of Turkish and Kurdish t... Lees meer

Ravensbruck

Jack Morrison

• Paperback | Engels
• Attempting to reconstruct the workings of everyday life in the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, the only camp in the Nazi system designed for women,... Lees meer

The Human Drama, Vol. IV

Donald James Johnson, Jean Elliott Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels
• The final volume in this highly acclaimed series ushers in the twentieth century, the bloodiest in world history, and arguably the century that saw mo... Lees meer

Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal

Khadim Mbacké

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is a study of the state of Islam in Senegal and of the religious factors that influence it. Islam in Senegal is characterized by the strong ... Lees meer

Dominican Cultures

Bernardo Vega, Frank Moya Pons, Christine Ayorinde

• Paperback | Engels
• The Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of Dominican culture. What is not as widely... Lees meer