 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
THE BLACK MIDDLE
AFRICANS, MAYAS, AND SPANIARDS IN COLONIAL YUCATAN |
| By: |
Matthew Restall |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£124.00 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0804749833 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804749831 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 June, 2009 |
| Pages: |
456 |
| Description: |
The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico). |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize.The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of Spanish and Maya language documents from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives. His goal is to discover what life was like for a people hitherto ignored by historians. He explores such topics as slavery and freedom, militia service and family life, bigamy and witchcraft, and the ways in which Afro-Yucatecans (as he dubs them) interacted with Mayas and Spaniards. Restall concludes that, in numerous ways, Afro-Yucatecans lived and worked in a middle space between?but closely connected to?Mayas and Spaniards. The book's "black middle" thesis has profound implications for the study of Africans throughout the Americas. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|