Ira Berlin

Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the U.S. from its beginnings in the 17th century to its fiery demise nearly 300 years later.

First published in 1967, Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages is one of the most influential works in the field of Islamic history. Primarily a stud

The ground-breaking, "provocative" ( The New York Times Book Review) work that exposed the racially discriminatory precursors of affirmative action, n

A leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early 17th century

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery

Surveys the many attempts to define romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows h

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. This title selects some of the best of his essays. It enc

Twee opvattingen over vrijheidHet werk van de filosoof Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) vormt een van de krachtigste verdedigingen van het westerse pluralism

A portrait of the literary sensation and short-story master Lucia Berlin, told through a compilation of sketches, letters from, and photos of, friends

‘De vos weet van alles, maar de egel weet één groot iets.’ Met deze spreuk deelde Isaiah Berlin grote schrijvers en denkers in. Plato, Dante en Dostoj

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Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, manufacturing goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceed

So central was labour in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of wor