A Companion to African American History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405179937 ISBN 13: 9781405179935

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day.

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• Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field
  
• Includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history

About this title

Book Description:

A Companion to African American History contains state-of-art essays arranged thematically and topically within eight broad chronological periods. The essays survey the scholarly literature in African American history and provide a guide to the research, analyses, and various interpretations and perspectives that historians have presented in the classic and contemporary literature. They chronicle and interpret the African American experience, including African origins and cultural retentions over the breadth of these eight chronological eras. Each essay pays attention to geographical features as well as conceptual and methodological issues. Thus globalization, region, migration, gender, class, and social forces have been knitted into the broad cultural fabric that constitutes the history of African Americans in the US. The volume provides readers with a complete source of the most recent theories and explanations for the changing contours of African American life.

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A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day. From their origins in West Africa on the eve of slave trading, through slavery itself and its abolition in the turmoil of the Civil War, and then over the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they struggled for freedom, identity, and place, African Americans occupy a central role in their country’s history. This volume surveys the scholarly literature in African American history and provides a guide to the research, analyses, and various interpretations and perspectives that historians have developed over the past fifty years.

Each essay pays particular attention to geographical features as well as conceptual and methodological issues. In this volume, globalization, region, migration, gender, class, and social forces have been knitted into the broad cultural fabric of African American history. With this Companion, readers now have a complete source to the most recent theories and explanations for the changing contours of African American life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405179937
• ISBN 13: 9781405179935
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 584
• Editor: Hornsby Jr. Alton