| Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora Contributor(s): Gomez, Michael (Author), Klein, Martin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521806623 ISBN-13: 9780521806626 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $84.54 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: The experiences of Africans in the Old World--the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds, is followed by their movement into the New, where their plight in lands claimed by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and English colonial powers is analyzed from enslavement through the Cold War. Particular attention is paid to the everyday lives of the working classes and their cultural development. Their exploits, challenges, and struggles are covered over a broad time frame that links as well as differentiates past and present circumstances. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 909.049 |
| LCCN: 2004051992 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.92" W x 9.3" (0.96 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gomez, Michael a.: - Michael A. Gomez is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu (Cambridge, 1992) and Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (1998). He currently serves as director of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. |