Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries.
Examines potsherds from four colonial sites in the Antillean island of Guadeloupe to discover what these everyday items tell us about the people... Læs mere
In this collection, prominent archaeologists explore the sophisticated political and logistical organisations that were required to plan and complete these architectural... Læs mere
Eric Walrond is one of the great underexamined figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the Caribbean diaspora. In Search of Asylum compiles Walrond's... Læs mere
An exploration, using research from the Maya site Motul de San Jose in Guatemala, of how political structures and dynamics have been examined by political anthropologists and archaeologists over the last century.
Explores the development of warfare in preindustrial, non-Western societies, addressing why some societies fight endemic wars while others... Læs mere
In this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in... Læs mere
Tracing the flows of people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, this book demonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cuban communities in a transnational setting.