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Item Details
Title:
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DICTIONARY OF CARIBBEAN AND AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY
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By: |
Franklin W. Knight (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£772.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
0199935793 |
ISBN 13: |
9780199935796 |
Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
Pub. date: |
1 June, 2016 |
Pages: |
3000 |
Description: |
From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Pele, the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of historically significant Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans. The project is unprecedented in scale, covering the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. It also encompassesthe full scope of history, with entries on figures from the first forced slave migrations in the sixteenth centuries to entries on living persons such as the Haitian musician and politician Wyclef Jean and the Cuban author and poet Nancy Morejon. |
Synopsis: |
The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography is a major biographical reference work covering the lives and legacies of notable Afro-descendants from the Caribbean and Latin American, men and women from all eras and walks of life. This groundbreaking resource provides unprecedented coverage of the region through the lives of its people. Biographical records on Afro-Latin American and Caribbean lives are in short supply. Even as new historical scholarship has invigorated the international study of Latin America and Atlantic history, and even as new departments of Latin American Studies have flourished, no large-scale biographical reference work devoted to black subjects in the region has ever been attempted. This is a surprise given the enormous influence the people of these areas have had on history, culture, and technological achievement. The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (DCALAB) will be published in print with over two thousand in-depth |
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US |
Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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Non-returnable |
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