Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West, Hardback - John Craig Hammond

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

Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectAuthor(s): Professor Ying-Shih (Princeton University) YuIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of...

Reducere. "NEW YORK TIMES "EDITOR'S CHOICE"SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "RECOMMENDED BOOKWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in t...

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland. Their success rested partly on their being ke...

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

Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set a...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful me...

Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title pr...

By helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and wor...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

Reducere. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

This book highlights, scrutinizes, and deploys Bernstein's philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosop...

Provocative new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Stephen...

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 ...

This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capi...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Jenny Tinghui ZhangNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 40Cover type: HardbackR...

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. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

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

The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stephen (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) AronIllustration(s): ...

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all t...

Reducere. "Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping rel...