¿The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main int...
¿Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the Europe...
This book describes and analyzes the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past...
This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth cen...
Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the...
Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes th...
All over Latin America, and especially in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez, Latin Americäs liberator,...
This is the first English translation of the famous Risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler...
Heinz Halm is an internationally renowned scholar of the Middle East, whose books, including The ...
Offers the author's reflections on Capoeira and Candomblé, combining personal experiences with an...
Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniar...
In this book, Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of civilization at a time ...