Mastering Emotions. Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States, Hardback - Erin Austin Dwyer

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose ho...

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In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of p...

Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies a...

This book takes a critical view of the relationship between public discourse and culturally specific definitions of free speech to illuminate the w...

Publisher: Chronicle BooksIllustration(s): Jacketed hardcover, Full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Gregory Fairchild introduces readers to the rising set of entrepreneurs whose efforts to reach marginalized groups are reshaping the emerging marke...

This is the first comprehensive political history of national ID card proposals and developments in identity policing in the United States. Examini...

Why Political Democracy Must Go is an insightful analysis of the origins of the socialist movement in the United States, written by famed journalis...

This reference book profiles corporate magazines, those sponsored by and produced for a single business firm. Entries are arranged alphabetically a...

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of sp...

This book explores how breastfeeding is both promoted and made difficult in the United States, while the use of formula is simultaneously shamed an...

An engaging warts-and-all history of the U.S. meant to better educate those who fight for it. Fluid, readable, strongly written, and thought-provok...

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

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

Reducere. On June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth, American slaves in Texas were informed that they had been emancipated. Juneteenth is a very important event ...

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Next Big Idea Club selection―chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two mos...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled th...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Catherine Ceniza ChoyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 27Cover type: HardbackRede...

Reducere. DescriptionReverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 - October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. Biography: He was born in Salem, Mas...

Reducere. Volume 2 of Interviews with former North Carolina Slaves

Reconstructing Rights will appeal to several audiences because of its deliberative-partnership thesis, including public law scholars for its social...

Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferenc...

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...

More than 200 photographs show off 29 unique and instantly recognisable customised trucks from around the world. With high standards of craftsmansh...

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Reducere. To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline, as this book does, might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keri Leigh MerrittAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess worker...

Reducere. When information professionals are asked questions involving government information, they often experience that "deer in the headlights" feeling. M...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Akiko HayashiIllustration(s): 20 halftones, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed ...

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