The Convergence of Judaism and Islam offers fifteen interdisciplinary studies that investigate the complex relationships between the cultures of Jews and Muslims during the medieval and early modern p
"Latin America in the twenty-first century is no longer the way we have always imagined it, and nowhere are the region’s vast changes more evident than in the field of religion. Ed Cleary b
While mortuary ruins have long fascinated archaeologists and art historians interested in the cultures of the Near East and eastern Mediterranean, the human skeletal remains contained in the tombs of
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, m
“Offers readers interesting snapshots of life at these five frontier forts, all of them hotly contested places in the mid-eighteenth century… Ingram makes a powerful case for the local nature of the B
“In well-documented explanations and interviews, Janna Jones adds a welcome dimension to the conversation about preservation, access, inclusivity, and good practice across the discipline and within th
“Demonstrates how the ‘jail, no bail’ tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country’s attention on the injustice of segregation.”—Cho
“Essential reading for those who increasingly appreciate the enormous importance of Marti as one of the nineteenth century’s most influential and most original thinkers.”—John Kirk, coeditor of Redefi
“In Autoepitaph, Reinaldo Arenas soars above death, conquers terror, and sees himself reflected in the face of his lover, the Cuban sea.”—Flora Gonzalez Mandri, coeditor and cotranslator of In the Vor
“Unrivaled in scope. An essential work for urban historical archaeologists.”—Adrian Praetzellis, author of Dug to Death “An engaging and astonishingly comprehensive work that reveals just how much our
“A masterful overview of archaeological work on American gravestones and cemeteries that should be on the shelf of every student and scholar of mortuary studies.”—Lynn Rainville, author of Hidden Hist
“Challenges the reader in provocative new ways. Points to the salient call to action presented by local Santeria and Espiritismo arts, ritual, performance, and other cultural forms in addressing core
From its founding in 1935 to the present, trips to American Beach have meant good times, good friends, and great food. Located on Amelia Island in northeast Florida and established by the Pensi
More than 200,000 African American soldiers fought in World War I, and returning?troops frequently spoke of "color-blind" France. Such cosmopolitan experiences, along with the brutal, often desegregat
Deere and Royce (agricultural and biological engineering, and Center for Latin American Studies, U. of Florida) compile 17 chapters on rural social movements organized in Latin America for issues such
Epigraphers, archaeologists, historians, and ethnographers contribute to a broad study of people in eastern Guatemala, western Honduran, and northwestern El Salvador, long considered Ladino or non-May
“Never has the story of American African colonization been so thoroughly explored.”—Violet Showers Johnson, coauthor of African & American: West Africans in Post–Civil Righ
"A classic on post-Cold War Cuba. . . . Azicri evidences Cuba’s expanding external relations with the papacy, the Economic Union, and Latin America and argues that Cuba has begun internal changes that
