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Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity

Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity

by Cornel West

"Prophesy Deliverance! is an exhilarating and challenging intellectual exercise. Cornel West takes the philosophic enterprise, the quest for the right way to live, with utmost seriousness, and has given us an impressive blueprint toward a framework that would meet questions o human living. His book is one of the most important and sophisticated statements in the field of Black Religious Studies in recent years".... (more)

Facing Mount Kenya

by Jomo Kenyatta

Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

by Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world... (more)

The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis

The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis

by Michael D. Green

In the two decades after their defeat by the United States in the Creek War in 1814, the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama came under increasing—ultimately irresistible—pressure from state and federal governments to abandon their homeland and retreat westward. That historic move came in 1836. This study, based heavily on a wide variety of primary sources, is distinguished for its Creek perspective on tribal... (more)

Salvador Witness: The Life And Calling of Jean Donovan

Salvador Witness: The Life And Calling of Jean Donovan

by Ana Carrigan

"A fine and sensitive book. It brings home to the reader the gravity of the issues in Central America..."

American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll

by Orvin Larson

Biography of Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)

In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

by James Oliver Horton

The lives of the first free blacks in America are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade through the American Revolution to, finally, the Civil War. The book brilliantly illuminates the free black community of the antebellum North as it struggled to assimilate while maintaining a unique cultural identity, and to work for social action in... (more)

Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York

Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York

by Thomas J. Davis

The Moon Pearl (Bluestreak)

by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls' house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only options open to them at this time). They choose instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk... (more)

No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest

No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest

by Kathleen Blee

Working-class Appalachian women on the picket line, fighting for better working conditions. White women organizing against the racial integration of schools. Native American women struggling for Indian treaty rights. African American women in the Black Panther Party. What prompts these women to adopt political stances outside mainstream politics? How are these women changed by personal experiences of militancy and... (more)

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Heroes of the Bible in African-American Spirituals

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Heroes of the Bible in African-American Spirituals

by John Langstaff

Kindergarten-Grade 6-- Nine Biblical heroes--Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David, Ezekiel, Daniel, Jonah--are featured in a slim, bright volume. A few lines of text introduce each, only hinting at their full stories, or the meaning of their heroism, or of God's actions regarding them. (This brevity can mislead: a statement that Moses was one of the ``. . . greatest leaders of the ancient world'' only makes... (more)

Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation

Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation

by Carter Heyward

How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West

How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West

by Perez Zagorin

Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book... (more)

From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists After the American Revolution

From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists After the American Revolution

by Mary Louise Clifford

During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause. Those who responded to this promise found refuge in New York. In 1783, after Britain lost the war, they were evacuated to Nova Scotia, where for a decade they were treated as cheap labor by the white loyalists. In 1792 they were... (more)

Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle

Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle

by Margaret Randall

First published in 1981 in the wake of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) revolution in Nicaragua, Sandino's Daughters can now be seen not as a triumph of revolutionary ideals, but as a triumph of the spirit. Through a series of interviews with participants at all levels in the resistance, Margaret Randall recounts the lives of ordinary women who became pillars of strength and perseverance during... (more)

Labor's advocate: Eugene V. DebsIris Noble

Labor's advocate: Eugene V. Debs

by Iris Noble

The Same Fate As the Poor

by Judith M. Noone

The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution

The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution

This book explores the impact of Sandinista electoral defeat and the U.S. backed Chamorro administration on the gains of the Nicaraguan revolution. Through a series of essays based on current research, seven experts on contemporary Nicaragua draw a balance sheet on the gains of the Revolution and assess the current status of the revolutionary process. The Revolution brought dramatic social, economic and political... (more)

War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire

War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire

by Gregory Evans Dowd

The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations of the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule, considered outrageous. Unlike the French, with whom Great Lakes Indians had formed an alliance of convenience, the British entered the upper Great Lakes in a spirit of conquest. British officers on the frontier... (more)

In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion (Publciations of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol 65)Robert A. Gross

In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion (Publciations of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol 65)

by Robert A. Gross

In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context

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