Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660-1783, Hardcover - Lee B. Wilson

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

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Reducere. The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history b...

Reducere. First published in 1931, the author exposes the commercial aspects of slave trading, including the breeding and rearing of slaves for sale to Weste...

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Reducere. DescriptionAt the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton planta...

Reducere. The book details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discusses the various factors needed to support and ach...

Reducere. A finalist for the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award of the Army Historical Foundation and the 2005 Thomas Fleming Book Award of the American Revolu...

Reducere. Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu...

Reducere. As the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a recons...

Supporting great history teaching: developing confident, articulate and successful historians. Our new resources* include 16 Student Books - one fo...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

Reducere. How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers the...

Tells the story of Britain's scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had...

Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

Reducere. The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how Britis...

Reducere. Consider by scholars as the single most influential book in naval strategy, Alfred Thayer Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1660-17...

Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Joseph HardwickNumber of pages: 296Collection: Studies in ImperialismPublication date: 2021Dimensi...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Reducere. By: Janie Revill, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2021, 387 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-017-6.This is a copy of the original index book showing Revol...

Reducere. Slave State is an incarcerated author's attempt to illustrate historical and contemporary failures in the Louisiana Criminal Justice System. It is ...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald Horne Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saul CornellAmericans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an...

Reducere. First published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies ...

Reducere. In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners i...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

Reducere. In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for socia...

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An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decad...