Slavery. Interpreting American History, Paperback - ***

While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject can...

Reducere. "My Christian faith taught me always to fight hard but only to fight back with the truth. Sadly, I learned that the opposition to Judeo-Christian f...

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a ...

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on pr...

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

Reducere. "My Christian faith taught me always to fight hard but only to fight back with the truth. Sadly, I learned that the opposition to Judeo-Christian f...

Reducere. William Appleman Williams was one of America's greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reach...

Reducere. Who were the first American Slaves? More importantly, who started slavery? Know the answers to these interesting questions and more by going over t...

Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.The Origins of Ame...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Milton MeltzerSlavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution, " but one that is deeply rooted in the history and...

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY';Full oflively insights and lucid prose' (The Wall Str...

DescriptionIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined force...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned ...

Reducere. DescriptionSee the times as they were, the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus boyhood to his di...

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Reducere. "Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping rel...

CONTENTS: Chapter 1: 1762-1786; Chapter 2: 1787-1817; Chapter 3: 1818-1830; Chapter 4: 1831-1845 (Introduction); Chapter 5: 1847-1853; Chapter 6: 1...

Reducere. In this book readers will be fascinated to learn about a wide variety of men and women who have made significant impacts upon the history of the Un...

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Reducere. Bad Guys in American History recounts the events related to our country's most compelling outlaws, from colonial times to the 1930s. Complete with ...

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A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspa...

Reducere. The Cycles of American History, Paperback

In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story ...

Reducere. Let's tell it like it was: By the late 1970s, the Peavey Electronics Corporation was already respected among working musicians for its well-made, r...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Marshall EakinNumber of pages: 176Collection: What is History?Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 18Cov...

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

Reducere. Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he p...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Discover the REAL truth behind African American History.You will be amazed to learn about some of the great African Americans and their legacies.He...

Examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and fre...

This book emphasizes blacks' agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement. To c...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

Reducere. DescriptionOut of Slavery: A Novel of Harriet Tubman is a story that follows the perilous path of the Underground Railroad and the tragic costs of ...

This American history volume is intended by the writer as an introduction basic American history and as an introduction to his larger work entitled...

Reducere. Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway--taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted pre...

States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Const...

Reducere. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherh...

Reducere. George Mason of Gunston Hall distinguished himself as a planter, revolutionary patriot, author the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slave owner....

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...

DescriptionEach biography ties the present generation to the past through a concise, but fact-filled manner. These men and women are inspirations, ...