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Plantation Kingdom
av Barbara M. Hahn , Peter Coclanis , Sven Beckert m.fl.
How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, …
We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom's original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, …
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Barbary States captured and held for ransom nearly five hundred American sailors. The attacks on Americans abroad-and the …
2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThis volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the …
An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings of American law.How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first …
Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War.Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all …
"e;Three thoughtful contributions . . . attempt to deepen and extend an emerging discussion about the limits to African American freedom and autonomy."e; -Slavery & …
"e;In this engaging work, Van Atta . . . provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War."e; -ChoiceIn Wolf by …
"e;Elegantly argued . . . convincingly shows the centrality of enslaved men and women to the transformation of the coastal upper South's commercial life."e; -TheJournal of …
A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the …