Fatal Revolutions. Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature, Paperback - Christopher P. Iannini

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

Reducere. Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. ...

Reducere. Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man'...

Reducere. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is univ...

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

Reducere. The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, indepe...

In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our rele...

DescriptionOver the course of four years, Jasmin Habib was a participant observer on tours of Israel organized for diaspora Jews as well as at Nort...

Israel, Diaspora, and the Routes Of National Belonging is a startlingly honest, theoretically rich, and detailed analysis of official tour narrativ...

Reducere. The history of chief spokan garry was the first american indian evangelist west of the rockies.Garry was the chief of the middle and upper bands of...

Reducere. The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Reducere. The fossil fuel revolution is usually rendered as a tale of historic advances in energy production. In this perspective-changing account, Christoph...

Reducere. "Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas."--San Francis...

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

Reducere. A study of the Maroon Wars and the many slave rebellions and revolts in Jamaica. Richard Hart seeks to avoid polemics and emphasizes that the Jamai...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

The widely held belief that a deep historical and ideological gulf exists between Islam and the West is turned on its head in this thought-provokin...

Reducere. Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of A...

Reducere. The FIRST BOOK written of actual ghost encounters of American Indians written by an American Indian Each page is filled with personal experiences b...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Geordie TorrIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 234 ...

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Reducere. Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering experiences in her life when she was separated fro...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): John G BourkeNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of -winning- the West, Drinnon links r...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Indian Wars, then keep reading...Tree captivating manuscripts in one book: American Indian W...

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

Reducere. First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a ...

Reducere. From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known t...

Publisher: BookBabyAuthor(s): Christopher Paul GuidoNumber of pages: 156Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 14Cover type: Paperback / sof...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.The Origins of Ame...

Reducere. Profiling more than 400 of the most commonly seen birds in western North America, this handy photographic field guide brings each species to life o...

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...