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To Live An Antislavery Life - Personal Politics And The Antebellum Black Middle Class

de Erica L. Ball

34,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.
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The American Dreams Of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader

de Kari J. Winter

34,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The first major biography of an unrepentant slave trader, this story illuminates the intertwined politics of labor, race, class, and gender in the young American nation. Winterâ€™s life-and-times portrayal of a Prentis illuminates the clash between two American dreams: one of wealth, the other of equality.
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We Are The Revolutionists - German-Speaking Immigrants And American Abolitionists After 1848

de Mischa Honeck

37,18€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German Ã©migrÃ©s into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad.
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Silent Violence - Food, Famine, And Peasantry In Northern Nigeria

de Michael J. Watts

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 Looking at the food crisis that struck the West African Sahel during the 1970s, Watts examines the relationships between famine, climate, and political economy. Through a longue durÃ©e history and a detailed village study, Watts argues that famines are socially produced and that the market is as fickle and incalculable as the weather.
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The Slave Ship Wanderer

de Tom Henderson Wells

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 Published in 1967, The Slave Ship Wanderer details the journey of the elegant yacht that was used to secretly land a cargo of 400 enslaved Africans off the coast of Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1859. In tracing the story of the Wanderer, Wells provides insight into the heated political and social climate of the South on the verge of secession.
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Confederate Finance

de Richard Cecil Todd

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 Published in 1954, this work looks at the measures taken by the Confederacy to stabilize its currency and offer a basis for foreign exchange. By the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy had resorted to a number of financial expedients, including seizing the property of enemies, levying direct taxes, and placing duties on exports and imports.
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The People Of Atlanta - A Demographic Study Of Georgia'S Capital City

de C. A. Mcmahan

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 In this analysis, the number and distribution of Atlantaâ€™s population is addressed first, focusing on race, nativity, age, sex, marital status, education, occupation, and religion of inhabitants. The People of Atlanta also addresses fertility, mortality, and migration as it affected the growth of Atlantaâ€™s population.
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Tall Betsy And Dunce Baby - South Georgia Folktales

de Mariella Glenn Hartsfield

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 These tales range from the supernatural to the romantic and from the sacred to the secular. A celebration of American imagination, tradition, and manners, this collection of folktales reveals the spirit of people who responded to the demands of rural living with grace, good humor, and endurance.
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North By South - The Two Lives Of Richard James Arnold

de Charles Hoffmann e Tess Hoffmann

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 Organized around a surviving plantation journal kept during two winters and one spring, North by South encompasses Arnoldâ€™s career as a rice and cotton planter as it uncovers the increasingly difficult social and moral disguises that enabled him to move freely through two worlds.
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The First Anesthetic - The Story Of Crawford Long

de Frank Kells Boland

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 Crawford W. Long (1815-1878), a physician from Danielsville, Georgia, was the true pioneer of anesthetics. In 1950, Frank Kells Boland published The First Anesthetic, tracing the history of Long's first discoveries and uses of anesthesia and calling for wider recognition of his achievements.
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Rafael Carrera And The Emergence Of The Republic Of Guatemala, 1821â€“1871

de Ralph Lee Woodward

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 Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. Among Central Americaâ€™s many political strongmen, he is unrivaled in the length of his domination and the depth of his popularity. This â€œlife and timesâ€ biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that facilitated his ascendancy.
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Contentious Liberties - American Abolitionists In Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866

de Gale L. Kenny

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 Kennyâ€™s illuminating study examines the differing ideas of freedom held by white evangelical abolitionists and freed people in Jamaica and explores the consequences of their encounter for both American and Jamaican history. He shows how liberated slaves were able to resist the imposition of white mores and to redefine the terms of the encounter.
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In Search Of Brightest Africa - Reimagining The Dark Continent In American Culture, 1884-1936

de Jeannette Eileen Jones

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 Jones traces the history of the idea of Africa to recover a belief in â€œBrightest Africaâ€â€"a tradition that runs through American cultural and intellectual history with equal force to its â€œDark Continentâ€ counterpart. She illuminates the optimism about Africa underlying these concerns and the racist interests these agents often served.
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The Black O - Racism And Redemption In An American Corporate Empire

de Steve Watkins

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 The story of the largest racial job discrimination class action lawsuit of its time, involving the Shoney's restaurant chain in 1988, and serving as a stark refutation that the civil rights movement eliminated systemic discrimination from the workplace.
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Charleston Syllabus - Readings On Race, Racism, And Racial Violence

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 A collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the 2015 Charleston, SC massacre, along with excerpts from key scholarly books. It draws from a variety of disciplinesâ€"history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theoryâ€"and includes discussion questions and a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading.
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Charleston Syllabus - Readings On Race, Racism, And Racial Violence

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 A collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the 2015 Charleston, SC massacre, along with excerpts from key scholarly books. It draws from a variety of disciplinesâ€"history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theoryâ€"and includes discussion questions and a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading.
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The Politics Of Black Citizenship - Free African Americans In The Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817â€“1863

de Andrew K. Diemer

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 Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of the Mid-Atlantic borderland, Diemer shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics as it exploited the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiated the complex national, state, and local politics in which that concept was determined.
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Finding Charity'S Folk - Enslaved And Free Black Women In Maryland

de Jessica Millward

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 Millward highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom. Basing her research on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents, she skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre.
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Words About Pictures - The Narrative Art Of Children'S Picture Books

de Perry Nodelman

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 A pioneering study of a unique narrative form that explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone.
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Roman Law And Comparative Law

de Alan Watson

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 Watson examines the ways in which Roman law influenced later legal systems and how comparative law explains the role of law in society. For example, he examines the structure of European legal systems, tort law in the French civil code, and differences between contract law in France and Germany.
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The Invention Of Ecocide - Agent Orange, Vietnam, And The Scientists Who Changed The Way We Think About The Environment

de David Zierler

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 Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.
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Enterprising Women - Gender, Race, And Power In The Revolutionary Atlantic

de Cassandra Pybus e Kit Candlin

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 These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeople was possible. Through determination and extensive commercial and kinship connections, these women penetrated British life and created success for themselves and future generations.
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We Are The Revolutionists - German-Speaking Immigrants And American Abolitionists After 1848

de Mischa Honeck

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 Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German Ã©migrÃ©s into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad.
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Civil Rights History From The Ground Up - Local Struggles, A National Movement

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 A spirited assessment of the state of civil rights history, by the leading scholars of the movement, this collection of original works refocuses attention on this bottom-up history and compels a rethinking of what and who we think are central to the movement.
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