Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities, Hardcover - Craig Steven Wilder

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Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. In her explora...

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

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An award-winning journalist's breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails.In the middle of the night, t...

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n this sweeping, erudite, and much-needed book, Singh obliterates any myth of American peace, revealing instead that the thread tying America's pas...

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'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph On the trail of Soviet i...

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An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labour

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In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Long before c...

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The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause c l bre in seventeenth-century Rome, how ...

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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 ...

An award-winning journalist's breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails.In the middle of the night, t...

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