Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2005-03-05
Dewey code: 973
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Review Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / Afchron.Com:
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 813
Price: $19.95
Review Mister Neville / Fremantle Arts Center Pr:
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Creator: Sterling Lecater Bland
Publication date: 2001-06-30
Dewey code: 973.049607300922
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Review African American Slave Narratives [3 volumes]: An Anthology / Greenwood Press:African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum South and provided a solid foundation for the African American literary tradition. By presenting 16 slave narratives in their entirety, this reference conveniently documents this historically significant literary genre. A vivid and moving history of African Americans seeking to establish community, liberty, economic independence, and education within the constraints of a repressive society. This reference intentionally avoids well-known narratives and instead collects unavailable and otherwise difficult-to-find texts. To add to the value of the work for researchers and general readers alike, each narrative is accompanied by a preface, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading. Many of the narratives gathered here were influential when initially published; Josiah Henson's presentation of himself, for example, embodies many of the characteristics given to Uncle Tom by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. While other collections often only provide excerpts from widely available texts, this reference includes complete narratives. The introductions and annotations redefine current thinking in the field by closely examining how these authors used language, structured their writing, and crafted their autobiographies. By examining the historical, cultural, literary, and social issues that African Americans have faced since their arrival, this reference provides the broad context necessary to understand the literary, historical, and intellectual traditions from which these writings developed.
Creator: Ray Desmond
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1994-02-25
Dewey code: 581.092241
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Review Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers / CRC:Over the past four centuries botanists and gardeners in the British Isles have gathered, maintained and propagated many varying species of plants. Their work has been documented in innumerable books and articles which are often difficult to trace. The Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists represents a time-saving reference source for those who wish to discover more about the lives and achievements of the horticulturalists listed. The dictionary's utility comes not only from indicating the major publications of the named authors, but also the location of their herbaria and manuscripts. ; The previous 1977 edition of the Dictionary has for many years been a much used source of information for botanists, botanic artists and archivists. In this revised edition the scope has been expanded to include among its 13,000 entries flower painters in addition to botanical artists over 1400 entries and, for the first time, garden designers. ; Finally the Dictionary should have international appeal since so many botanists and gardeners worked on collective plants overseas, in particular in North America and the British Commonwealth. ; Each entry gives, wherever possible, details of dates and places of birth and death, educational qualifications, professional posts, honours and awards, publications, location of plant collections, manuscripts, drawings and portraits. Its main function, however, is to provide further biographical references to books and periodicals. Comprehensive classified indices facilitate access by professions and activities, countries, and plant interests.
Creator: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publication date: 2005-03-05
Dewey code: 810
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Review Uncle Tom's Story of His Life, an Autobiography of Rev. Josiah Henson / Afchron.Com:
Creator: John Ritchie
Publication date: 1990-12
Review Australian Dictionary of Biography / Melbourne University Press:Australia's most authoritative biographical reference work is now available for the first time in electronic form. All 7811 records are fully searchable, using award-winning Folio Views software.
Publication date: 1837
Review Eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain and Ireland (Cabinet cyclopædia ... Biography) / Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman [etc.]:
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 781.64208996073
Price: $32.00
Review My Country: The African Diaspora's Country Music Heritage / My Country:This book is the first-ever comprehensive look at the importance of country music in black culture around the world from the 17th century to today. Its 378 pages include more than 450 black people who have played a variety of roles in country music, such as co-creators of the genre, singers, songwriters, musicians, producers, record label owners, radio station owners and personnel, and, most importantly, buying and listening audience. In revealing the typically overlooked strong relationship between black people and country music, the book also includes a selective discography of nearly 1,500 country recordings black people helped create, including more than 400 Billboard country chart hits, more than 200 Billboard top 10 country hits and nearly 100 Billboard No. 1 country hits. Other information detailed in the book includes: Louis Armstrong recorded a country album in 1970 and first recorded country in 1930 with the legendary Jimmie Rodgers; DeFord Bailey was one of the most popular performers on the Grand Ole Opry from 1926 to 1941; Chuck Berry wrote 15 Billboard country chart hits and is among five black people inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame; Fats Domino recorded dozens of country songs and earned a spot on the Billboard country chart in 1981; Berry Gordy operated five country record labels as subsidiaries of Motown Records, racking up 36 Billboard country chart hits and launching the career of country star T. G. Sheppard; Louis Jordan & Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra landed on the second-ever Billboard country chart, in 1944, marking them as the first black acts to make the chart; Linda Martell is the first black woman known to perform country music on the Grand Ole Opry, in 1969; Aaron Neville has recorded a body of country music that has earned him a country Grammy Award, an Academy of Country Music Award, Country Music Association Award nominations and a Billboard country chart hit; the Supremes released a country album in 1965; and the Pointer Sisters won a country Grammy Award in 1974.
Publication date: 1902
Review Shadow and light: An autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century / M.W. Gibbs:Adventure, danger, romance—Mifflin W. Gibbs seemed to invite them in his determination to better himself. He staked out considerable success as an entrepreneur and public voice in the American West before moving on to other frontiers. In California, where he had gone to seek his fortune, he was politically active, protesting the poll tax, editing a newspaper, and generally speaking out. After exile in Canada, necessitated by his civil-rights agitation and the political climate, Gibbs returned to the United States in 1869—to Oberlin, Ohio, where he earned a degree in law. Then he went to Little Rock, Arkansas, serving as a judge until his appointment as U. S. Consul to Madagascar in 1897. Shadow and Light offers many historical sidelights—on the underground railroad young Gibbs knew first hand, the abolition movement, the Spanish-American War, and nineteenth-century race relations. Acting always on his concern for what he called “the progress of the race,” Gibbs won the support and friendship of leaders as diverse as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. [+]Washington.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-04-01
Dewey code: 780.92396
Price: $500.00
Review International Dictionary of Black Composers / Routledge:To a field under-represented in existing general reference works and about which only a fraction is known by most scholars, the International Dictionary of Black Composers brings extensive information about historical and contemporary composers of African heritage from around the world. Unlike other biographical reference works dealing with composers or musicians, the dictionary includes not only biographies, works, primary and secondary bibliographies, and discographies for each of its 250 entrants, but also signed critical essays about the composers themselves and their most important pieces. A team of 100 leading experts in the field provide not only the facts but also interpretive perspectives. The dictionary is a forum for the notice, study and validation of all genres of black music, encompassing composers of concert hall music as well as popular and vernacular musical forms and styles.
Publication date: 1881-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $109.00
Price: $109.00
Review Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass (Notable American Authors) / Reprint Services Corp:Raised as a plantation slave, Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for African-American freedom and equality. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.
Authors
- P. Tynan
- Patrick Joseph Percy Tynan
Price: $95.00
Review The Irish Invincibles & Their Times (History of Political Violence) / Corinthian Press:
Publication date: 1968
Review Australian Dictionary of Biography 12vol / MELBOURNE UNIV PRESS:
Publication date: 1868
Review Life of the Blessed Charles Spinola of the Society of Jeses: With a sketch of the other Japanese martyrs, beatified on the 7th of July 1867 / John G. Shea:
Publication date: 1961
Review Along this way: The autobiography of James Weldon Johnson / Viking Press:The autobiography of the celebrated African American writer and civil rights activist Published just four years before his death in 1938, James Weldon Johnson’s autobiography is a fascinating portrait of an African American who broke the racial divide at a time when the Harlem Renaissance had not yet begun to usher in the civil rights movement. Not only an educator, lawyer, and diplomat, Johnson was also one of the most revered leaders of his time, going on to serve as the first black president of the NAACP (which had previously been run only by whites), as well as write the groundbreaking novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Beginning with his birth in Jacksonville, Florida, and detailing his education, his role in the Harlem Renaissance, and his later years as a professor and civil rights reformer, Along This Way is an inspiring classic of African American literature. With the possible exceptions of Dr. Alain Locke and W. E. B. Du Bois, no African American excelled on as many different levels as James Weldon Johnson. Along This Way-the first autobiography by a person of color to be reviewed in The New York Times-not only chronicles his life as an educator, lawyer, diplomat, newspaper editor, lyricist, poet, essayist, and political activist but also outlines the trials and triumphs of African Americans from post-Reconstruction to the rise and fall of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Florida in 1871 to middle-class West Indian parents, Johnson recognized the challenges and absurdities of segregated America early on. [+]But it was his experience as a tutor to rural blacks while a student at Atlanta University that was to alter the course of his life: "It was this period that marked the beginning of psychological change from boyhood to manhood," he writes. "It was this period that marked also the beginning of my knowledge of my own people as a race. " With a rare blend of pride and humility, Johnson recounts how he, among other accomplishments, became Florida's first black lawyer in 1898, a diplomat in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and lyricist for his brother Rosamond Johnson's famous song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing. " Johnson's commentary on his epochal novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, as well as writings on his works of poetry-The Creation, God's Trombones, and Fifty Years and Other Poems-is priceless. Equally important are the logical and even-tempered opinions on race that he wrote for The New York Age, which offered comprehensive critiques of Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey, along with his analysis of the racial climate while serving as head of the NAACP. This remarkable man left a mark on the 20th century that goes beyond the boundary of race. -Eugene Holley Jr.
Edition: Reissue of 1936 edition.
Publication date: 1983
Price: $499.99
Review Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Names (Gujin Tong Xingming Da Cidian) / Shanghai Shudian, PRChina:
Creator: Darlene Clark Hine
Publication date: 2005-01
Price: $383.75
Review Black Women in America / Oxford University Press:Winner of the Dartmouth Medal for Outstanding Reference Publication of 1994, the first edition of Black Women in America broke ground-pulling together for the first time all of the research in this vast but underrepresented field to provide one of the strongest building blocks of Black Women's Studies. Hailed by Eric Foner of Columbia University (for a Lingua Franca survey) as "one of those publishing events which changes the way we look at a field," it simultaneously filled a void in the literature and sparked new research and concepts regarding African-American women in history. Since the first edition was published, a new generation of American black women has flourished, demanding this landmark reference be brought up to date. Women such as Venus and Serena Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Carol Mosley-Braun, Ruth Simmons, and Ann Fudge have become household names for their remarkable contributions to sports, politics, academia, and business. In three magnificent volumes, Black Women in America, second edition celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today, and covers the new research the first edition helped to generate. Features: * Includes more than 150 new entries, plus revisions and updates to all previous entries * Contains 500 illustrations, many published here for the first times * Includes over 335 biographies, many newly prepared for this publication * Offers sidebars on interesting aspects of the history and culture of black women * Provides a bibliography for each entry, plus a major bibliographical essay * Features a chronology and a comprehensive index For a complete listing of contents, visit www. oup. com/us/bwia.
Creator: J. R. Martindale
Publication date: 1992-11-27
Dewey code: 930
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Review The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire 2 volume set: Volume 3, AD 527-641 (Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire) / Cambridge University Press:Volume 3 of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire consists of two volumes sold together in a slipcase. It provides a complete secular biographical dictionary (prosopography) of the period AD 527 (the beginning of the reign of Justinian) to 641 (the death of Heraclius). The information has been gathered from a wide variety of sources in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Syriac and other languages. The project makes available for the first time in one work a mass of information relating to the personnel of the Roman Empire and the western kingdoms that were its heirs, and of other nations with which Rome had dealings, and is intended as a research tool for historians of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Creator: Rica Erickson
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1989-07
Price: $22.50
Review Dictionary of Western Australians Vol. I: Pre-1829-1888, A-C / International Specialized Book Services:
Publication date: 2005-03-05
Dewey code: 920
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Review The Life of Toussaint L'ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti / Afchron.Com:This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Biography), My Country: The African Diaspora's Country Music Heritage, Shadow and light: An autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century, International Dictionary of Black Composers, Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass (Notable American Authors), The Irish Invincibles & Their Times (History of Political Violence), Australian Dictionary of Biography 12vol, Life of the Blessed Charles Spinola of the Society of Jeses: With a sketch of the other Japanese martyrs, beatified on the 7th of July 1867, Along this way: The autobiography of James Weldon Johnson, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Names (Gujin Tong Xingming Da Cidian), Black Women in America, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire 2 volume set: Volume 3, AD 527-641 (Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire), Dictionary of Western Australians Vol. I: Pre-1829-1888, A-C, The Life of Toussaint L'ouverture, the Negro Patriot of HaytiTop headlines: Gellman: A Letter to a Bigot: What I want to say to a person of prejudice. ›22:12 12 Oct, Fri Terror Watch: Gonzales Lawyers Up: Still under investigation by Congress and Justice Department lawyers who once worked for him, the former attorney general has turned to a leading Washington attorney to help him beat the rap. ›18:12 10 Oct, Wed Ruling could mean end to saucy Bratz dolls: Pouty-lipped Bratz will stay on store shelves until after the holidays, but their fate after that was uncertain after a court ruling banning MGA from making the Barbie alternative. ›20:37 Capital Sources: Mike Huckabee, Unplugged: The former Arkansas governor struggles to raise money, lags behind the GOP presidential front runners in the polls and has been maligned by Bushs former counsel. 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