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This collection of essays and art explores how Florida both shapes and is shaped by the multiple African diasporas that move through it.

In the first comprehensive study of the relations between Haiti and black America from the colonial period to the present, Leon Pamphile shows how historical ties between these two communities of the African diaspora have affected their respective histori

A culmination of Vogel's sixteen-year study of Casma culture, this book helps us understand the relationships between polities of the ancient world, how they built connections to other towns or cities outside and within their own boundaries, and demonstrates the importance of cities and urbanism in the development and collapse of complex societies.

Offering more than just history,&nbsp;<em>Chinese Junks on the Pacific&nbsp;</em>focuses on ten ships, such as the&nbsp;<em>Whang Ho</em>, <em>Ning Po</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Amoy</em>, that sailed to the United States in the early twentieth century.

John Tolan, one of the world&rsquo;s foremost authorities on early Christian/Muslim interactions, offers ten essays that explore the history of conflict and convergence between Latin Christendom and the Arab Muslim world during the Middle Ages, deepening our understanding of the roots of current stereotypes of Muslims and Arabs in Western Culture.

Exploring the cultural role of cycads in the ancient and modern Mesoamerican and Caribbean worlds, this volume demonstrates how these ancient plants have figured prominently in regional mythologies, rituals, art, and foodways from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition to the present.