Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) - Softcover

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Gomez, Michael A.

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9781108712439: Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora)
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ISBN 10: 1108712436 ISBN 13: 9781108712439
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. In this second edition, Michael A. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent research on the African Diaspora. Continuing to pay particular attention to the lives of the working classes, the second edition expands its temporal boundaries to include developments into the twenty-first century, as well as integrating women and feminist perspectives more thoroughly. It also widens the geographical span to include Latin America, while incorporating more on African experiences in Europe, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf. Assessing the impact of religion, global trade, slavery and resistance, and the challenges of modernity, this edition further connects the experiences of Africans and their descendants over time and space, attending to both convergences and divergences, while explaining how the deep past informs subsequent developments.

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About the Author

Michael A. Gomez is Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD). He is also Series Editor of the Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora. In addition to the first edition of Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge, 2004), he is the author of several books, including African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa (2018) and Black Crescent: African Muslims in the Americas (2005).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108712436
ISBN 13 
9781108712439
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Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
312
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