Bury the Chains. The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery, Unabridged ed, Paperback - Adam Hochschild

From the award-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, the dramatic story of the men who ignited the first great human rights movementPublisher: Pa...

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The astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time Rose Pastor...

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Award NameLiterary AwardAward categoryArt of the EssayFor some 30 years, Adam Hochschild's voice has been one of the most distinctive in American j...

Reducere. From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship...

The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War, now in paperback.

Reducere. "This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultura...

A detailed and accessible account of the Congo massacre, described by Tariq Ali in the }Financial Times{ as 'an amazing book.' Available here as pa...

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the ""Gre...

Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain...

Reducere. John Bagnell Bury saw the Byzantine Empire as a continuation of the Roman Empire and he explicitly called Byzantine History, Roman History. In this...

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 ...

Reducere. In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most im...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced life in Israel's prisons since 1967, as did many more in previous decades during the course ...

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In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long ca...

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Reducere. On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America'...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

Reducere. "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, ...

Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers ...

Reducere. This extraordinary work on Roman history by J.B. Bury covers the period of more than 200 years from the time of Julius Caesar until the end of Marc...

Philomena is now a major film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, directed by Stephen Frears.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Martin SixsmithNu...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Reducere. Almost seventy years ago, historian and then Trinidadian Prime Minister Eric Williams published his classic Capitalism and Slavery (re-titled for t...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera co...

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In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells 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 ...

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Everything you want to know about time and the seasons, plus a bit more!Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Brenda WalpoleNumber of pages: 32Collect...

One of the most important French poets of the twentieth century, Paul Valery (1871-1945) influenced generations of poets who came after him. Major ...

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered and their lives have to change forever....

Reducere. An impassioned argument by a young Mexican American woman for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Abuses in detention center...