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22 produkter
Year of Meteors
Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War
E-bok, 2010
185 kr
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“Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but from the clouded vision of those who lived through it.” -Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution and Civil War …
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
Inbunden, 2009
1153 kr
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In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with the cotton …
A Man on Fire
The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Inbunden, 2025
418 kr
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Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and …
Man on Fire
The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
E-bok, 2024
329 kr
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Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and …
Man on Fire
The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
E-bok, 2024
322 kr
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Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and …
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
E-bok, 2009
453 kr
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In Death or Liberty , Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain''s 1763 victory in the Seven Years'' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton …
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
E-bok, 2009
453 kr
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In Death or Liberty , Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain''s 1763 victory in the Seven Years'' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton …
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
Häftad, 2011
653 kr
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In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton …
Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries
Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
Häftad, 2013
817 kr
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This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries
Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
Inbunden, 2002
2826 kr
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This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
Heirs of an Honored Name
The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America
Inbunden, 2019
350 kr
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John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. When President John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow death of the family's political legacy - a decline that mirrored the fall of the …
He Shall Go Out Free
The Lives of Denmark Vesey
Häftad, 2004
575 kr
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On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United States. During his long, extraordinary life Vesey played many roles—Caribbean field hand, cabin boy, chandler's man, house servant, proud freeman, carpenter, …
Gabriel's Rebellion
The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; and …
Gabriel's Rebellion
The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
E-bok, 2000
540 kr
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Gabriel''s Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; …
Denmark Vesey Affair
A Documentary History
Av Robert L. Paquette, Douglas R. Egerton
E-bok, 2017
5136 kr
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In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise an insurrection" in Charleston, South Carolina. In The Denmark Vesey Affair , Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate and interpret a vast collection of …
Denmark Vesey Affair
A Documentary History
Av Douglas R. Egerton, Robert L. Paquette
Inbunden, 2017
1753 kr
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In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for their alleged plot to murder the white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina. Presenting a vast collection of contemporary documents that support or contradict the “official” story, the …
Denmark Vesey Affair
A Documentary History
Av Robert L. Paquette, Douglas R. Egerton
E-bok, 2022
714 kr
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A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the mostsophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S. In1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named DenmarkVesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise aninsurrection" in …
Atlantic World
A History, 1400 - 1888
Av Douglas R. Egerton, Alison Games m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
966 kr
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Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following Columbus' voyage, the Atlantic turned into a …
Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries
Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
E-bok, 2013
942 kr
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This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries
Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
E-bok, 2013
963 kr
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This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
Wars of Reconstruction
The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
E-bok, 2014
254 kr
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A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War . By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the …
Gabriel's Rebellion
The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
E-bok, 2000
540 kr
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Gabriel''s Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; …
