Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions, Paperback - Rashauna Johnson

Reducere. New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major America...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people ...

DescriptionTim Cassedy's fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identi...

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DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

Publisher: Peter Lang LtdAuthor(s): Michael BroersIllustration(s): 7 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2017Dimensions...

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This is not your usual 'I grew up as a white person in Africa' combined with an 'I worked in a difficult, dangerous place and this is what happened...

Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inher...

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The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 19...

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutio...

Reducere. A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was kn...

Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, ...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...

"The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age was first published in a different form in the original Portuguese as Arquitetura na e...

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Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

Reducere. Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans, Hardcover

"The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time."--Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Min Hee GoIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. 1. Cold Cold Heart 2. Nightingale 3. One Flight Down 4. Seven Years 5. Feelin' the Same Way 6. Comes Love 7. Something Is Calling You 8. Come Away ...

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Reducere. "A real-life Confederacy of Dunces."--Kirkus Reviews When Jerry Strahan became manager of the Lucky Dogs hot dog cart in 1970s New Orleans, he assu...

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...

Reducere. Before there were celebrity gourmands, Creole Feast brought together the stories and knowledge of New Orleans top chefs. These masters of modern Cr...

Many black neighborhoods in New Orleans are perceived by outsiders as being areas of decay. However, to photographer Michael P. Smith, in these nei...

DescriptionHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation ...

Reducere. ``Interesting investigation and straightforward handling of sensational times and tricksters, of the cult of voodooism in all its manifestations. F...

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Wim KloosterA new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world Within just a half century, the America...

Reducere. Fear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America's most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of biza...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Reducere. Populism is on the rise across the globe. Authoritarian populist leaders have taken over and solidified their control over many countries. Their po...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

Reducere. DescriptionLeaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny tr...

I didn't do it. Those are the words Ann Marcel's ex-husband, Jon, mutters the day he staggers through her front door, covered in blood. Five years ...

Reducere. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Sp...

Reducere. Based on the true story...Detective Colin Fitzgerald, only recently returned from World War I, with scars inside and out, is back in New Orleans an...

Reducere. The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggl...

Reducere. The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city's inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad t...

Reducere. DescriptionA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past decade, " according to the Chronicl...