History Catalogue 2006.qxp - Blackwell Publishing

Aion, Immigrat icanAaniontoAfricanAmericanHistory,tonAl , Jr HornsbyThe lackChurchinAmerica,HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS / AMERICAN IMMIGRATION HISTORY36A Companion toompaniontoAmerAmerican ImmigrationEdited by REED UEDARED UEDA,Tufts UniversityA COMPANION TO AMERICAN IMMIGRATION is anauthoritative collection of original essays byleading scholars on the major topics andthemes underlying American immigrationhistory. The book focuses on the two mostimportant periods in American history whenimmigration had its greatest impact onAmerican society: the Industrial Revolutionand the Globalizing Era from the post-WorldWar II decades to the present. It exploresimmigration from a global andinterdisciplinary perspective to show thevariety of methods that scholars have recentlyused to supply new insights.The volume’s structure and approach providein-depth treatment of central themes,including economic conditions, public policies,demography, social structure, group identity,communal institutions, and cultural life. Thebook also places a key question in theforeground of the book: how immigrants ofthe industrializing era and the globalizing eracan be studied with respect to a host ofcollective and common experiences thatbridge historical periods. The comparativedimension is a defining feature of this volume,capturing the essence of America, and its richhistory of immigration.SERIES: BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY560 PAGES / 0-631-22843-8 HB / NOVEMBER 2005A Companion toAfrican AmericanHistoryNEW NEW IN 2006Edited by ALTON HORNSBY JR.Morehouse CollegeA COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY isa collection of original and authoritativeessays arranged thematically and topically,covering a wide range of subjects from theseventeenth century to the present day. Fromtheir origins in West Africa on the eve of slavetrading, through slavery itself and its abolitionin the turmoil of the Civil War, and then overthe rest of the nineteenth century and into thetwentieth, as they struggled for freedom,identity, and place, African Americans occupy acentral role in their country’s history. Thisvolume surveys the scholarly literature inAfrican American history and provides a guideto the research, analyses, and variousinterpretations and perspectives thathistorians have developed over the past 50years.Each essay pays particular attention togeographical features as well as conceptualand methodological issues. In this volume,globalization, region, migration, gender, class,and social forces have been knitted into thebroad cultural fabric of African Americanhistory. With this COMPANION, readers nowhave a complete guide to the most recenttheories and explanations for the changingcontours of African American life.SERIES: BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY584 PAGES / 0-631-23066-1 HB / 2004The Black Church in AmericaAfrican American Christian SpiritualityMICHAEL,BATLEMICHAEL BATTLEVirginia Theological Seminary“I am, because we are; and sincewe are, therefore I am”, saidArchbishop Desmond Tutu. Thisstrong sense of community,argues author Michael Battle, iscentral to African AmericanChristian spirituality. Exploring thehistory of the Black Church inAmerica, its African roots, itsbeliefs, practices, politics, andmoral dilemmas, he gives readers a broad understandingof African American Christian spirituality and a sense of itsuniqueness in the wider world.Michael Battle is Vice President, Associate Dean forAcademic Affairs and Associate Professor of Theology atVirginia Theological Seminary . He has previously workedwith Archbishop Desmond Tutu and served as aninner-city chaplain with Tony Campolo Ministries. Battlehas travelled to Uganda and Kenya with PlowsharesInstitute, and was ordained in Cape Town, South Africa byArchbishop Desmond Tutu. He therefore has a strongaffinity with the many forms of African American Christianspirituality.SERIES: RELIGIOUS LIFE IN AMERICA272 PAGES / 1-4051-1891-1 HB / 1-4051-1892-X PB / JANUARY 2006