Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation, Paperback - David W. Blight

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David W. BlightEditor: Jim DownsThis collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters...

Description**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History** *Winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and...

DescriptionAt the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slav...

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Chronicle of an ordinary Union soldier caught up in extraordinary events through a collection of letters

Reducere. In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Dougl...

Reducere. Get to know the iconic historical figure, Frederick Douglass through his story and his writing as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass d...

Reducere. True stories and traditional songs shed light on a lesser known era in African-American history -- the crucial decades between Emancipation and the...

* This is a major new work of social theory by one of the leading sociologists in France today. Formerly a close collaborator of Pierre Bourdieu, L...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the foun...

Reducere. From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Ame...

Reducere. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence,...

Reducere. The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In ...

Reducere. Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond ...

Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Julius B. Fleming Jr.Illustration(s): 12 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Performanc...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it Bottom-up history at its ver...

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed...

Reducere. It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Fr...

DescriptionFrom one of America's smartest political writers comes a "captivating and comprehensive journey" (#1 New York Times bestselling author D...

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David Clay LargeThe Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a sup...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David AndersonDavid Anderson's troubling account of British conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s comes at a ti...

DescriptionWe need a coherent picture of our world. Life's realities won't let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views...

Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

Reducere. For more than 5, 000 years the Ancestral Puebloans--Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans--occupied the Four...

Reducere. Description"If you aren't already 'woke, ' you will be after reading this book."--Mary Batten, author of Aliens from Earth EVAN WALLS IS TERRIFIED ...

Reducere. Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the ...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

Uncovering the secrets behind England's best-known country houses and their unusual inhabitantsPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): David Lon...

Reducere. In July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez and Silvestre V lez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new S...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author ofThe Song of the Dod...