World-renowned scholars discuss the forging of black identity in the diaspora.
The purpose of this book is to contribute to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in western society is central to their identity and those who deny that position. How did Africans manage to create a viable life for themselves after they got here? How were they able to negotiate the social, political, cultural, and other space they encountered?
Isidore Okpewho, Chair of Afro-American and African Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton, was for many years Professor of English at the University of Ibadan.
Carole Boyce Davies is Professor and Director of African-New World Studies at Florida International University.
Ali A. Muzrui is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton, and author of more than 20 books. He is also senior scholar in African Studies at Cornell University and Walter Rodney Distinguished Professor, University of Guyana.
Contributors
Isidore Okpewho Carole Boyce Davies Michael J. C. Echeruo Maureen Warner-Lewis Elliott P. Skinner Joseph E. Inikori Richard Price Peter P. Ekeh Jack Blocker Ira K. Blake Sharon Aneta Bryant Celia M. Azavedo Kimberly Welch Antonio Benitez-Rojo Sally Price Eliana G. Ramos Bennett Patience Elabor-Idemudia Sandra L. Richards Oyekan Owomoyela Jean Rahier Omoniyi Afolabi Adetayo Alabi Ali A. Mazrui Pierre Damien-Mvuyekure Robert Elliott Fox David Evans Nkiru Nzegwu LeGrace Benson Andrea Frohne Charles Martin Keith Q. Warner Laura J. Pires-Hester Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. Joseph McLaren Joyce Ann Joyce
December 1998
cloth 0-253-33425-X $ 59.95 s
The Ohio frontier was a land of opportunity, violence, and refuge for both Indians and whites. It served as the political, economic, and social foundation for the settlement of the Old Northwest. First settled about 1720 by migrating Native Americans and later by white Americans, Ohio became the crucible for Indian and military policy throughout the region. Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than in the Ohio country. There, Shawnees, Wyandots, Delawares, and other native peoples fought to preserve their land claims against an army that was incompetent at the beginning but highly trained and disciplined in the end.
This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Ohio and the military, social, political, and economic history of the American frontier.
R. Douglas Hurt is the editor of Agricultural History and Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Agricultural History and Rural Studies at Iowa State University. He has written and edited more than a dozen books.
A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
--Walter Nugent and Malcolm Rohrbough, general editors
October 1996
432 pp, 20 b&w photos, 5 maps, bibl., index, LC95-53278
cloth 0-253-33210-9 $ 35.00 t
Presents the rich ethnic history of the state of Indiana.
Thirty-one academics, lay people, and professionals from a variety of fields explore the many ethnic groups that have made their mark on Indiana. They look at the colorful histories of such diverse Hoosier ethnic groups as African Americans, Canadians, Chinese, English, French, Germans, Greeks, Hispanics, Irish, Italians, Jews, Native Americans, Poles, Scandinavians, Scots, Slovaks, Southeast Asians, South Slavs, Swiss, Welsh and others. The book also features an introduction, "Ethnic History in America and Indiana," written by John Bodnar, Professor of History and Director of Indiana University's Oral History Research Center.
Robert M. Taylor, Jr. directs the Education Division of the Indiana Historical Society. He is senior author of Indiana: A New Historical Guide, editor of The Northwest Ordinance: A Bicentennial Handbook, and coauthor of The Early Architecture of Madison, Indiana.
Connie A. McBirney is Assistant Director of the Education Division of the Indiana Historical Society.
Distributed for the Indiana Historical Society
August 1996
Approx. 700 pages, approx. 150 illus., maps, appendixes, index
cloth 0-87195-112-6 $ 39.95 t
Important new scholarship on America's most influential theologian.
This collection of essays presents groundbreaking contemporary scholarship focusing on the writings of the 18th-century American philosopher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. The essays range widely across the Edwardsian canon, including his most prominent and important published texts--Religious Affections and The Nature of True Virtue--as well as unfamiliar and unpublished treatises and sermons. They measure Edwards against significant Western religious and philosophical figures including Solomon Stoddard, Thomas Shepard, George Berkeley, and William James. The current debate concerning the 19th-century Edwardsian tradition is also featured in essays which show prominent American evangelicals, such as Nathaniel William Taylor, Charles Grandison Finney, and Edwards Amasa Park, competing for the mantle of Edwards. A compact survey of current Edwards scholarship, this book engages the full range of Edwards's writings and shows their central importance for the history of American religion and culture.
Stephen J. Stein is Chancellors' Professor of Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor of History, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, editor of volume 5 in that edition (Apocalyptic Writings) and author of The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers, which was awarded the Philip Schaff Prize in 1994 by the American Society of Church History.
November 1996
240 pp, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, intro., index, LC95-49862
cloth 0-253-33082-3 $ 39. 95 L
September 29, 2000