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

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

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...

This updated and expanded new collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating cl...

Leo Frobenius' pivotal works on African culture represented a landmark study in ethnography. His ...

From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations - building the...

The 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board are well documented in books ...

This book remains an up-to-date and engrossing document more than one hundred fifty years after i...

A Muslim curator and archivist who preserves in his native Timbuktu the memory of its rabbi. An e...