Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery. The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union, Paperback - Daniel W. Crofts

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...

Reducere. For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

The author travels across Russia, from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the d...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn award-winning journalist's dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with i...

From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham...

A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed ...

Publisher: Lulu.comAuthor(s): Hugh Ninian-JackNumber of pages: 84Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 136 x 103 x 6Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

Reducere. Expansive and ambitious yet comprehensive and coherent, From Slavery to Services: The Struggle for Economic Independence in the Caribbean is a tour...

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...

In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing vic...

Reducere. This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

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 ...

Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor...

Reducere. Votes for Women provides an updated consideration of the questions raised by the mass movement to gain equality and access to power in our democrac...

Reducere. Macavity Award"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." --Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning au...

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

Reducere. In A Right to Lie?, legal scholar Catherine J. Ross addresses the urgent issue of whether the nation's highest officers, including the president, h...

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

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...

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 ...

The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery le...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aaron L. FriedbergThere may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power ...

DescriptionDon't treat the consequence. Treat the cause. This book will help you gain a greater understanding of the issues that are consuming your...

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while t...

DescriptionWhen students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, the significance of their protest was felt across ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state's progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself tur...

This allegorical picture book retells the real story of Greta Thunberg and her incredible "school strike for climate" for younger readers.

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Vincent Phillip MunozIllustration(s): 8 tablesNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimens...

"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Illustrations: 6 tables.

Reducere. More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corpora...

Reducere. The first full-scale biography of John Hay since 1934: From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, Hay was an e...

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social cri...