River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom, Paperback

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In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius exp...

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Examines the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. This work captures the mult...

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

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Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

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Now in paperback, this is a history of the cotton industry, and the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It won ...

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DescriptionA leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have ...

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...

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Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the "Secret War" in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom reveals how...

For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

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Publisher: Goose Lane EditionsAuthor(s): Andrew HunterNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 228 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

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James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law religious scholarship and royal justice undergirded legal pract...

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This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider...

Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevi...

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In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the...

Addresses the philosophy and politics of slavery during the French Enlightenment. This book scrutinizes Condorcet's "Reflections on Negro Slavery" ...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 23Cover type: Har...

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Dig into this delectable journey through the dark, sensual, and ravishing poetry of Frank Watson. Ruminate the searing to the sultry as you absorb ...