Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future
“If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us,” Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.
This book explores the relationship between African American males and the police through their own eyes. It reveals this is not a black or white issue, but a global human problem, and is essential for understanding their realities, fears, and concerns.
African American Religious Experiences
Facing slavery, Jim Crow, and racism, African Americans relied on religion as their source of strength. This is a story of survival, demonstrating how religion became the key ingredient and ultimate weapon that allowed a race to adapt and endure.
African Intellectuals and the State of the Continent
This festschrift honors distinguished scholar and Pan-Africanist Sulayman S. Nyang. His contributions to African affairs transcend academia, with a career as a diplomat and consultant to the UN, while publishing copiously on issues affecting Africans and the Diaspora.
Ali Mazrui synthesizes Africa’s political and social thought in this original interpretation of timeless relevance. It covers themes from liberation movements to the convergence of African, Islamic, and Western thought, and the role of religion in politics.
African Zion
Forged in slavery, exile, and subjugation, some black African and American societies have adopted a Judaic identity. This book explores the historical mosaic of black Judaism, reshaping the standard accounts of their collective religious experience.
AfroMecca in History
This book discusses anti-Black racism in the Arab world, centered on the term “ʿabd” (slave). It explores the ancient Black diaspora in Mecca and its contributions, as well as the religious and political role of the al-Haram Mosque’s teaching system throughout history.
After the Genocides
A sweeping memoir of the author’s Jewish and Armenian families, this account moves from genocide and the Cold War to his work with American and Russian leaders to prevent nuclear war, culminating in his organization winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
What happens after genocide? Drawing on newly discovered archives, this groundbreaking collection explores the aftermath of the Holocaust and other atrocities through perpetrator trials, victim commemoration, Jewish renewal, and cultural memory in literature and film.
Many female Victorian-era heroines find themselves expressing a form of loneliness directly connected to their lack of agency in the social structures that define their lives. This publication investigates how this theme appears across a number of nineteenth-century novels.
Albert A. Michelson and his Interferometer
This book reveals the astonishing connection between modern science and one instrument: Michelson’s Interferometer. It led to Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics, technologies like GPS and MRI, and the recent detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes.
Aldo Capitini on Opposition and Liberation
Imprisoned as an anti-fascist, philosopher Aldo Capitini developed a civil rights movement between that of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. He championed nonviolence and social change from the bottom-up, proving that “today’s utopia can be tomorrow’s reality”.
Alec Nelson and British Athletics prior to World War II
The life of coach Alec Nelson explores the hypocrisy of British athletics in the Chariots of Fire era. Though necessary for success, professional coaches were kept in their place by elite athletes, exposing the class-based antagonism at the heart of the sport.
This comprehensive biography presents Alexander’s story based on ancient sources, including non-Western evidence. It reveals the Oriental perspective on his epic conquests and offers a balanced portrait, avoiding both idealization and deconstruction.
Executed during the Exclusion Crisis, Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) was a key figure in the English civil wars. This book investigates his political thought, which mixed the modern philosophy of natural rights with the republicanism of Machiavelli.
Frederick Reinhardt arrived as US Ambassador to Vietnam during a critical time. He repaired the fragile relationship with Ngo Dinh Diem, restoring trust while overseeing pivotal events like the removal of the French, a new constitution, and Vietnam’s first national election.
Ambrose was a protean figure whose motives are not always clear. This interdisciplinary volume investigates his efforts to create social cohesion for Nicaean Christianity against heresy and paganism by fusing Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian intellectual traditions.
American Gold in Post-Second World War Taiwan
U.S. gold, sent to stabilize China’s currency during WWII, played a pivotal role in enabling a free China to thrive in Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek wisely used the remaining reserve to support Taiwan’s economy, creating crucial stability to avert a communist invasion.
Americanization of History
This collection of essays explores how history and literature are translated into film. From Walt Disney to the Wild West, mobsters to vampire slayers, these articles analyze how movies and TV reflect the time and place of their own creation.
An Alternative Medical Perspective on Ancient History
Based on Sumerian tablets and ancient DNA, this book reveals the world’s first pandemic. Historians have many theories for the demise of the Sumer and Indus Valley civilisations, but none ever proposed an infectious disease. This book rewrites ancient history.