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On appelait "nègre marron" l'esclave qui, aux Antilles, s'échappait de laplantation. La figure de cet esclave fugitif n e cesse d'attirer lesécrivains. Des premiers auteurs blancs du XIXe siècle aux romans afro-antillaiscontemporains, le marronage hante la littérature de Martinique et de Guadeloupe.Sa célébration culmine avec le quatrieme siecle d'Edouard Glissant, pourredescendre dans les dernières decennies.

This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide range of media settings for art—from elite to popular.

For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in accessible form the raw materials of Canadian history. In many minds the impression has taken root that those materials are uninteresting. Broadview's two-volume anthology of documents in Canadian history, A Few Acres of Snow and A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt, demonstrates the contrary: that these raw materials provide extraordinarily engaging and informative insights into the richness of Canadian history.

Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text. Threaded through the chronological narrative is the theme of freedom in American history and the significant conflicts over its changing meanings, its limits, and its accessibility to various social and economic groups throughout American history. The Third Edition places American history more fully in a global context.

This exciting new edition of A History of Ancient Greece in its Mediterranean
Context has been thoroughly revised and expanded to cover the development of
Greece from the Neolithic through the Hellenistic periods from the point of view of
its wider Mediterranean context. This approach is growing in popularity with Greek
historians as archaeological evidence increasingly demonstrates that the culture
and political life of Greece were not isolated developments, but rather formed an

Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer, and teacher of Canadian history, Conrad offers astute answers to these difficult questions.

What's white, costs billions of dollars, and embodies the American dream? For years, a white-gowned bride, multi-tiered white cake, and shiny gold rings have been the central icons for a grand American tradition that remains vibrant despite changing times. This work gives us a cultural history of American weddings since World War II.

We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we follow and the customs we observe at the table and on the go.

The conflict in Northern Ireland since 1969 has cost over 3,600 lives and about 100,000 people in Northern Ireland live in a household where someone has been injured in a troubles-related incident. This has been a key issue in British and Irish politics and the recent peace process in Northern Ireland and the current ‘War on Terrorism’ has stimulated international involvement and a desire to ‘learn the lessons’ of ‘the troubles’.