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Item Details
Title:
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AFRICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY SUPPLEMENTARY
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By: |
Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£162.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
0199920788 |
ISBN 13: |
9780199920785 |
Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
Pub. date: |
5 December, 2012 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
Series: |
The African American History Reference Series |
Pages: |
1094 |
Description: |
The second edition of the African American National Biography. Each of the nearly 5,000 entries are written and signed by distinguished scholars under the direction of Editors in Chief Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The African American National Biography is the most significant and expansive collection of black lives in print today. This essential scholarly reference work presents history through the lives of its people,profiling the famous, infamous, and little-known figures in African American history. |
Synopsis: |
The African American National Biography presents history through a mosaic of the lives of thousands of individuals, illuminating the abiding influence of persons of African descent on the life of this nation from the arrival of Esteban in Spanish Florida in 1529 through to notable black citizens of the present day. The AANB continues to grow along with the field of African American biographical research, providing for continuous updates to the online edition, each entry written and signed by distinguished scholars. This is a remarkable achievement, a tenfold increase over the number of biographies contained in 2004's award-winning and substantial African American Lives. In addition to Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr., the AANB includes a wide range of African Americans from all time periods and all walks of life. Lives profiled include those already recognized as giants of black history, figures whose stories have never been told and that readers will be discovering for the first time, and living people who are shaping the era in which we now live. The names within are both famous and nearly-forgotten.In the words of AANB editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "These stories, long buried in the dusty archives of history, will never be lost again. And that is what scholarship in the field of African American Studies should be all about." |
Illustrations: |
100 illustrations |
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US |
Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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