| Home --- Professional Books --- English-American Studies --- CD-ROMS --- | |
Please direct all inquiries to: orders@leabooks.com
|
Anglo-American Studies:
CD-ROMS
The Harvard Guide to
African-American History CD-ROM
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
All prices are subject
to change. The prices listed here are for reference only and were the
publisher's suggested retail price at the time we posted this catalogue.
Usually, LEA Book Distributors will charge the publisher's suggested US retail
price or at times the publisher's price for foreign customers. Check with us for
latest price changes.
TO ORDER:
Just send an e-mail with your
list, full address, and credit card data. Institutions: Send P.O. orders@leabooks.com
We offer these
outstanding choices:
For
more information contact:
US:
Colleen Lanick, Senior Publicist
UK
& Europe: Lisa Jolliffe, Publicity and Promotion Manager, London
"A
valuable and, in many ways, an indispensable tool to study African-American
History."
--Ira
Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone
"This
single volume source will be one of the first things scholars consult for
research in all aspects of African American life and culture. A great value of
the work are the lists of titles, repositories and collections. There is no
questions this will be a special and enduring reference work in the filed of
African American studies that all of us in the field will want to own."
--David
W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass' Civil War
Malcom
X once wrote that "of all our studies, history is the best qualified to
reward our research." In the last quarter of the twentieth century,
African-American History has emerged as a discipline in it's own right as well
as a major influence on American history itself. Hundreds of books and articles
have been published on all facets of black life in America and scholars have
utilized new and frequently interdisciplinary methods to uncover their findings.
The
Harvard Guide of African-American History (Harvard University Press / 25 June
2001 / $125.00) is an authoritative reference to both book and non-book sources
relating to African-American life and culture spanning over 500 years, from the
period of the slave trade through the end of the twentieth century. An
unparalleled finding aid, this guide, developed under the auspices of the W.E.B.
DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, presents a
rich array of published sources by leading experts in the field, in English as
well as foreign languages, of interest to research scholars, educators,
journalists, students, and anyone seeking general of specific information on
events, individuals, organizations, places, and issues in African-American
history.
THE
HARVARD GUIDE TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY is divided into three sections:
·
The first section contains twelve
essays on research aids divided by topic. Readers are directed to sources by
experts on such topics as art, music, film, newspapers, Internet sources,
sources on microfilm, federal records, manuscript collection, oral history
archives, and reference works.
·
The second section is arranged
chronologically and developed and prepared by experts of demarcated time
periods, including John Thornton, Peter H. Wood, Gary B. Nash, Stephanie Shaw,
Richard. J. M. Blackett, Eric Foner, Leon F. Litwack, Joe W. Trotter, Jeffrey
Conrad Stewart, Nancy L. Grant, Darlene Clark Hine, Clayborne Carson, John H.
Bracey, Adam Biggs, and Corey Walker. The sources are divided in ten
chronological time periods and then broken down into specific categories
relating to African-American history-race relations, demography, family,
religion, law, politics and voting, color and class, associational life, urban
conditions, thought and expression, work and entrepreneurial activity, science
and technology, etc. The chronological section is especially unique for its
inclusion of numerous sources published in foreign languages.
·
The third section of The THE
HARVARD GUIDE TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY directs readers to sources related to
special subjects of interest: autobiographies and biographies of
African-Americans (prepared by Randall K. Burkett, Leon F. Litwack, and Richard
Newman); studies identified by geographic region, including state and local; and
studies related to African-American women (prepared by Evelyn Brooks
Higginbotham).
The bibliographic information can be accessed in several ways: by the table of contents to find chronological and topical subsections for study; by the subject index to find specific information access time periods, on the black family, for example; or by the author index to find all of the entries by a particular author. Although the guide does not include extensive coverage of Africa and the Caribbean, there are bibliographical entries of these area that contribute to the African-American experience. A companion CD-Rom containing the bibliographic information will accompany the guide. Ultimately, The THE HARVARD GUIDE TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY will make a distinctive and much needed contribution to the advancement of research in aspects of African-American and American history.
Send an order or a message to: leabooks@leabooks.com
Remember, we commit ourselves to provide...
ANY BOOK PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH
OR IN SPANISH!
(Minimum order: $100.00 individuals,
$200.00 institutions and bookstores)
|
LEA Book Distributors |
| Home --- Professional Books --- English-American Studies --- CD-ROMS --- |
© LEA Book Distributors 1999