Vincent Brown

Photo of Vincent BrownPhoto | © Sharona JacobsVincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Reaper’s Garden, which won the James A. Rawley Prize, the Louis Gottschalk Prize, and the Merle Curti Award. He has received Guggenheim and Mellon New Directions fellowships. His online interactive map Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761: A Cartographic Narrative has been viewed by 87,000 users in 184 countries, and his documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, broadcast nationally on PBS, won the John E. O’Connor Film Award and was chosen as Best Documentary at the Hollywood Black Film Festival.

Search Results: 2 found (sorted by date)
  • Click on a column heading to sort search results by title, author, etc.
  • Ordering multiple books? Check the box next to each item or use the “Select All” button, then click “Add to Cart.”
  • HUP eBooks are available from a variety of vendors.
  • E-ditions (“print on demand” hardcover reprint volumes) listed below can be purchased via De Gruyter.
Select All Clear All Add to Cart
TitleAuthorFormatPublication DatePriceSelect Item
Cover: Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarTacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarBrown, VincentHARDCOVER01/14/2020$35.00
Cover: The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic SlaveryThe Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic SlaveryBrown, VincentPAPERBACK09/30/2010$24.50
Select All Clear All Add to Cart
Page 1 of 1

Back to top

What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, by Donovan Moore, with a Foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, from Harvard University Press

From Our Blog

Jacket: Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom, by James Danckert and John D. Eastwood, from Harvard University Press

Responding to Boredom during Self-Isolation

No one likes to be bored, but it’s almost inevitable during this time of social distancing and self-quaratine. John D. Eastwood, coauthor of Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom, explains some things that we know about boredom, how to address it—and even what we can gain from it. We have been here before. During the SARS outbreak of 2003, upwards of 23,000 people in the Greater Toronto Area were quarantined. House…

‘manifold glories of classical Greek and Latin’

The digital Loeb Classical Library (loebclassics.com) extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.