The Power to Die – Slavery and Suicide in British North America

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

In 2015 the landmark suicide of the 100th woman to kill herself in prison custody passed largely unnoticed. This book by two experts set out to red...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): R. B. HerathNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

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The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

What happens to the suicide bomber who doesn't die? He becomes a hero amongst his peers, a legend. But there will be no escape from death in the ne...

Reducere. Never afraid to take on tough cases or tackle difficult issues, here in From Freedom to Slavery Gerry Spence comes at us uncensored, with his passi...

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Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Inc., U.S.Author(s): Judith GalasNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 11Cover type: ...

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Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

From the award-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, the dramatic story of the men who ignited the first great human rights movementPublisher: Pa...

Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers ...

Making and Breaking Settler Space deftly explores how power and space are organized under settler colonialism in order to uncover decolonization op...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this new edition of his acclaimed work, Dr. Herbert Hendin casts new light on the problem of suicide, offering what he calls a "psych...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspa...

Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and p...

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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...

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Reducere. "Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas."--San Francis...

Assisted Suicide in Canada provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic of ongoing public debate.Publisher: Univ...

Reducere. Almost seventy years ago, historian and then Trinidadian Prime Minister Eric Williams published his classic Capitalism and Slavery (re-titled for t...

The extraordinary story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring Americ...

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts ...

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

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

The true worship of God is an entire way of life, a continuous action, from the meal you eat in the morning to the job you work on. It encompasses ...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

Reducere. In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most im...

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

This book contains the diary of Frederic Harmer, aide to John Maynard Keynes, and the reports and evaluations from Washington of Robert Brand, enco...

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

Publisher: Die Gestalten VerlagAuthor(s): Anne Ameri-SiemensIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, color; 56 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 56Pub...