They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Reducere. A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and...

Atlas of Vanishing Places takes you on a voyage to all corners of the world in search of the lost, disappearing and vanished places.Publisher: Auru...

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Reducere. These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that w...

A journey to the American South in search of friendship, life lessons and bluegrass.

This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book...

Reducere. The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine--along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turp...

Southern Man tells the story of Alan Walden, one of the most colourful and influential personalities to emerge from the history of R&B and Southern...

Reducere. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there f...

Zawe Ashton's awaited playwriting debut for all the women who thought they were Mad is an urgent piece of theatre examining the myriad of forces th...

Reducere. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had...

Reducere. "Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quot...

Reducere. Fascinated by the collision of country and soul music in the Southern states, Hoskyns and photographer Muir MacKean set out on a journey through th...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

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Reducere. Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditio...

Reducere. "Voice to the silent" Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave l...

Reducere. First published in 1931, the author exposes the commercial aspects of slave trading, including the breeding and rearing of slaves for sale to Weste...

Reducere. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had...

DescriptionThis exciting debut in graphic novel format tells the childhood stories of literary legends including Maya Angelou, Roald Dahl, and Sand...

This vibrantly illustrated graphic novel anthology brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, ...

Reducere. Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe civil rights movement was al...

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to...

Reducere. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

Reducere. Written by a notable actress and former Playboy Bunny and coinciding with NBC's new show The Playboy Club, this collection of memories from more th...

Reducere. Jacinta V. White's Resurrecting The Bones will not let southern African American history be silenced by re-zoning, gentrification, and useful forge...

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system an...

Reducere. In this gritty memoir, Vietnam combat veteran Second Lieutenant Bill Lindsay presents an uncensored, straightforward, hard-hitting account of his e...

The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later ...

Reducere. The Southern Strategy was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what Angie Maxwe...

Reducere. A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this c...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Reducere. American Witches: 50 Powerful Women in Black and WhiteWhat's a witch? Look for her silhouette-a woman in an old-fashioned black bombazinedress with...

At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Geo...

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At t...

Reducere. **Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost wor...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert R. MaxNewly enlisted in the Army during World War II, 21-year-old Bob Max soon found himself recruited into the Fort...

Reducere. At 7: 30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year...

Reducere. In this richly revealing biography of a major, but little-known, American businessman and philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli brings to life a portrait...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

Reducere. Long before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Begi...

Reducere. DescriptionExperience the vibrant cultures of South America as you color 26 beautiful ladies wearing traditional and modern fashions.South American...