Men of Mobtown. Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation, Paperback - Adam Malka

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available agai...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

Reducere. CONTENTS: Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble "Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World, " Sean Morey Smith and Chr...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

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....

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed...

Contributor(s): Author: W. Caleb McDanielWinner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the SHEAR James Broussard First Book PrizeIn The Problem of Demo...

Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

A vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero--an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery. The history of the ...

Reducere. From flying saucer crashes to underground alien bases, a number of modern mythologies have come into being since the advent of the UFO era in the 1...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved receive...

Reducere. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we reall...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Kris ManjapraIllustration(s): 1x8pp mono insetNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 24...

DescriptionAttitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression,...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Roberto SabaIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.Number of pages: 392Collection: America ...

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:...

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it chang...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): John OllerIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

Reducere. Lincoln's war, the North's attack on the South, took the life of 622, 000 citizens and altered the government's structure. Marx and Engels watched ...

Reducere. It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive. History auth...

From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment...

Reducere. In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in th...

Contributor(s): Author: Calvin L. WarrenIn Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black hu...

Reducere. A criminal defense attorney, sociologist, and legal scholar takes readers inside New York City's lower criminal courts.

From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine w...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Presents an account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth. This title takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe...

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

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Since its 1885 debut, the Catechism commissioned by the Third Council of Bishops in Baltimore has instructed generations of Catholic faithful. With...

Reducere. Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slav...

In launching modern economics, Adam Smith paved the way for laissez-faire capitalism, Marxism, and contemporary social science. This book scrutiniz...