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Author: Habiba Ibrahim
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1479810894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Black Age argues that age tracks the struggle between the abuses of black exclusion from western humanism, and the reclamation of non-normative black life"--
Author: Robert C. Palmer
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780807849545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Palmer's pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. The Black De
Author: Logan Beadnell-Davies
Publisher: Logan Beadnell-Davies
Published: 2020-06-20
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe G.E.G was created to reverse the effects of global warming. But in an error of science, it killed nearly every human older than eighteen years old. However, some adults survived. Those who did were brutally mutated. Extra limbs. Freakish size. Acidic gas secretion - you name it. Now they're hunting their children. Murdering them and leaving them dead in the streets. The teens of Great Britain must hold out until the G.E.G dissipates and takes the creatures with it, or never live to see sunlight again. The hours stack up, and desperation sets in. It quickly becomes apparent that the threat of mutants pales in comparison to the real danger; people. Until you have seen your friends die, you don't know true horror. The first entry in The Black Series.
Author: Beth Tompkins Bates
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0807835641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
Author: Linda Tarrant-Reid
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 168335429X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the first African explorers to the first black president, this illustrated history is an excellent resource and “an epic work” (School Library Journal). Discovering Black America is an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. It begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to the first African American president in the White House. With first-person narratives from diaries and journals, interviews, and archival images, Discovering Black America provides an intimate understanding of this extensive history. “Engaging . . . brings to light many intriguing and tragically underreported stories.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Reproductions of historical documents, photographs, and artwork provide a sense of immediacy to this immersive tapestry, which reaches well beyond the milestones typically outlined in history books.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Absolutely gorgeous in design, with a harmonious marriage of text and colorful archival images, this is the kind of book that invites browsing, and its extensive reach will make this a go-to title for report writers.” —School Library Journal “Begins with the first African explorers and seamen arriving in the New World in the fifteenth century, and . . . ends with the presidential election of Barack Obama . . . meticulous footnotes and a bibliography of recommended books...An excellent title for classroom support.” —Booklist “Thoroughly researched and documented...an outstanding resource for students. The primary source documents, photographs, and archival maps that complement this compelling account will engage readers.” —Library Media Connection (highly recommended) An NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
Author: Beatrice Gottlieb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994-07-28
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 019509056X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents aspects of family life in the preindustrial Western world, including households of the wealthy and the poor, courtship and marriage, and the care and training of children.
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1137103493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century. A comprehensive introduction that provides important background on the origins and spread of the plague is followed by nearly 50 documents organized into topical sections that focus on the origin and spread of the illness; the responses of medical practitioners; the societal and economic impact; religious responses; the flagellant movement and attacks on Jews provoked by the plague; and the artistic response. Each chapter has an introduction that summarizes the issues explored in the documents; headnotes to the documents provide additional background material. The book contains documents from many countries - including Muslim and Byzantine sources - to give students a variety of perspectives on this devastating illness and its consequences. The volume also includes illustrations, a chronology of the Black Death, and questions to consider.
Author: John Garrison Marks
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781643361239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked the Americas together. In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery John Garrison Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centers: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the lowcountry of North America's Atlantic coast. Marks reveals how skills, knowledge, reputation, and personal relationships helped free people of color improve their fortunes and achieve social distinction in ways that undermined whites' claims to racial superiority. Built upon research conducted on three continents, this book takes a comparative approach to understanding the contours of black freedom in the Americas. It reveals in new detail the creative and persistent attempts of free black people to improve their lives and that of their families. It examines how various paths to freedom, responses to the Haitian Revolution, opportunities to engage in skilled labor, involvement with social institutions, and the role of the church all helped shape the lived experience of free people of color in the Atlantic World. As free people of color worked to improve their individual circumstances, staking claims to rights, privileges, and distinctions not typically afforded to those of African descent, they engaged with white elites and state authorities in ways that challenged prevailing racial attitudes. While whites across the Americas shared common doubts about the ability of African-descended people to survive in freedom or contribute meaningfully to society, free black people in Cartagena, Charleston, and beyond conducted themselves in ways that exposed cracks in the foundations of American racial hierarchies. Their actions represented early contributions to the long fight for recognition, civil rights, and racial justice that continues today.
Author: Diane Zahler
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 082259076X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history of the Black Death plague in the fourteenth century, including the causes of the plague, the conditions that exacerbated it, and the effects it had on the surviving societies.
Author: Craig Lloyd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780820328188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough he was the first African American fighter pilot, Eugene J. Bullard is still a relative stranger in his homeland. An accomplished professional boxer, musician, club manager, and impresario of Parisian nightlife between the world wars, Bullard found in Europe a degree of respect and freedom unknown to blacks in America. There, for twenty-five years, he helped define the expatriate experience for countless other African American artists, writers, performers, and athletes. This is the first biography of Bullard in thirty years and the most complete ever. It follows Bullard's lifelong search for respect from his poor boyhood in Jim-Crow Georgia to his attainment of notoriety in Jazz-Age Paris and his exploits fighting for his adopted country, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Drawing on a vast amount of archival material in the United States, Great Britain, and France, Craig Lloyd unfolds the vibrant story of an African American who sought freedom overseas. Lloyd provides a new look at the black expatriate community in Paris, taking readers into the cabarets where Bullard rubbed elbows with Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, and even the Prince of Wales. Lloyd also uses Bullard's life as a lens through which to view the racism that continued to dog him even in Europe in his encounters with traveling Americans. When Hitler conquered France, Bullard was wounded in action and then escaped to America. There, his European successes counted for little: he spent his last years in obscurity and hardship but continued to work for racial justice. Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris offers a fascinating look at an extraordinary man who lived on his own terms and adds a new facet to our understanding of the black diaspora.
