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Michael Crawford presents the compelling story of colonial manumission movements among North Carolina Quakers in this illuminating volume.

This book compares the sociopolitical processes behind two major revolutions—those of Cuba in 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power, and Venezuela in 1999, when Hugo Chávez won the presidential election.

<em>Howling Near Heaven</em> is the only in-depth study of Twyla Tharp&rsquo;s unique, restless creativity. This second edition features a new forward that brings the account of Tharp&rsquo;s work up to date and discusses how dance and dance-making in the United States have changed in recent years. This is the story of a choreographer who refused to be pigeonholed and the dancers who accompanied her as she sped across the frontiers of dance.

The two volumes of&nbsp;<em>Bioarchaeology of the Southwest</em>&nbsp;bring together more than 100 years of research into the lives of the ancient people of the Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico. Volume 2 contains chapters that include northern and southern Arizona, southwest New Mexico, and northern Mexico.

<em>Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples&nbsp;</em>offers clear, accessible explanations of complex methods for observing evolutionary effects in populations. Christopher Stojanowski's intimate knowledge of the historical, archaeological, and skeletal data illuminates the existing narrative of diet, disease, and demography in Spanish Florida and demonstrates how the intracemetery analyses he employs can provide likely explanations for issues where the historical information is either silent or ambiguous.

In her debut book, Zoe Colley does what no historian has done before by following civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prisons to explore their treatment and the different responses that civil rights organizations had to mass arrest and imprisonment.