Captives and Cousins. Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, Paperback - James F. Brooks

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

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 ...

Reducere. Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hisp...

Reducere. Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Bla...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

Reducere. The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events...

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the n...

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...

Reducere. After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United Sta...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather ShumakerSaving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land...

DescriptionOn a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino...

Reducere. In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the marriage crisis in Jordan and the Middle East. Rap...

Reducere. In this important study, Dr. Gift Mtukwa investigates the relationship between work and community in Paul's letters to the Thessalonians. Utilizing...

Reducere. What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? First surprise? Bet...

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonpla...

Reducere. The father of special situations investing's final book, showing the master at the height of his powers. For the first time, Schiller examines turn...

Reducere. DescriptionJoining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel vila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and ...

Contributor(s): Author: Leon F. LitwackWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardBased on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews wit...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

Reducere. DELIVERANCE is a powerful weapon God has given His church to defeat Satan and set His people free However, no one can live in sin and also walk in ...

Reducere. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa its...

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africa...

Reducere. A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than ...

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807....

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon's en...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Ethan Doyle WhiteNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 159 x 233 x 31Cover type: Paperba...

Examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotla...