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Force and Freedom
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Häftad, 2020
340 kr
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From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative …
Kingdom and the Republic
Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
Häftad, 2021
402 kr
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In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in …
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Häftad, 2021
340 kr
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It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor-and …
Alchemy of Slavery
Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865
Häftad, 2022
340 kr
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In this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and social practice. Arguing that slavery had no fixed institutional form, Heerman traces practices of …
Black Republic
African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
Häftad, 2022
398 kr
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In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds-politicians, journalists, …
Luxurious Citizens
The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Joanna Cohen
Inbunden, 2017
592 kr
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After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, they created one that empowered the modern citizen-consumer. This profound transformation was the uncoordinated and self-serving work of merchants, …
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Inbunden, 2017
1177 kr
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It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor-and …
Alchemy of Slavery
Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865
Inbunden, 2018
592 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and social practice. Arguing that slavery had no fixed institutional form, Heerman traces practices of …
Kingdom and the Republic
Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
Inbunden, 2019
592 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in …
Prairie Imperialists
The Indian Country Origins of American Empire
Inbunden, 2019
768 kr
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The Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty …
In Union There Is Strength
Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation
Av Andrew Heath
Inbunden, 2019
651 kr
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In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. …
Force and Freedom
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Inbunden, 2019
1177 kr
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From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative …
Brotherhood of Liberty
Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
Inbunden, 2019
592 kr
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Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryIn A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of …
Black Republic
African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
Inbunden, 2019
1177 kr
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In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds-politicians, journalists, …
Art Wars
The Politics of Taste in Nineteenth-Century New York
Inbunden, 2020
709 kr
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A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era through the Gilded Age, New York City's leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. In the decades before the Civil War, art promoters believed …
Remaking the Republic
Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship
Inbunden, 2020
826 kr
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Citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over the fundamental questions of who could be a citizen, how a person attained the status, and the particular …
Fighting for the Higher Law
Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Inbunden, 2021
943 kr
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How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slaveryIn Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical …
Apache Diaspora
Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
Av Paul Conrad
Inbunden, 2021
826 kr
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Across four centuries, Apache (NdÉ) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, subjugate, or eliminate them. While many Indigenous groups in the Americas lived through similar histories, Apaches were especially affected owing to their …
I've Been Here All the While
Black Freedom on Native Land
Inbunden, 2021
417 kr
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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American …
Mastering Emotions
Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States
Inbunden, 2021
475 kr
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Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways that enslaved people survived and challenged bondage and experienced freedom. Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free …
Illusions of Empire
The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Inbunden, 2021
645 kr
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Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics, economics, and military operations during the Civil War era.William S. Kiser examines a fascinating …
Luxurious Citizens
The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Joanna Cohen
E-bok, 2017
688 kr
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After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, they created one that empowered the modern citizen-consumer. This profound transformation was the uncoordinated and self-serving work of merchants, …
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
E-bok, 2017
437 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor-and …
Alchemy of Slavery
Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865
E-bok, 2018
437 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and social practice. Arguing that slavery had no fixed institutional form, Heerman traces practices of …
Kingdom and the Republic
Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
E-bok, 2018
504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in …
Prairie Imperialists
The Indian Country Origins of American Empire
E-bok, 2018
940 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty …
In Union There Is Strength
Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation
Av Andrew Heath
E-bok, 2019
755 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. …
Force and Freedom
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
E-bok, 2019
427 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative …
Brotherhood of Liberty
Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
E-bok, 2019
688 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryIn A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of …
Black Republic
African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
E-bok, 2019
521 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds-politicians, journalists, …
