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Furs and Frontiers in the Far North
This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of …
Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the United States 1815-1870
First Published in 2005. This study uses the Baring archive to provide a professional and contemporary understanding of the foreign financial history of Continental Europe and the …
That Pride of Race and Character
"e;It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,"e; declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. "e;Their reasons …
Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions
This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.The Colonial Periodical Press …
From the Atacama to the Andes
With the break up of the Spanish empire in South America, the continent split into nine independent states with often ill-defined boundaries. One of these was that between Bolivia …
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself
Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was born to an enslaved woman named Mildred Jackson in Shelby County, Kentucky. His father was a state senator who never acknowledged him. His narrative …
Latin America and the World's Fairs, 1867-1939
This book examines the World's Fairs that took place from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America.It introduces the notion of …
Neville Figgis, CR: His Life, Thought and Significance
John Neville Figgis, CR (1866-1919) was a brilliant Anglican theologian, historian, political thinker and preacher; he was also a monk. This volume of a dozen freshly commissioned …
Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460-1580
Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first …
Parish and Belonging
What role did the parish play in people's lives in England and Wales between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century? By comparison with globalisation and its dislocating effects, the …
Cultures and Practices of Coexistence from the Thirteenth Through the Seventeenth Centuries
This book focuses on the ethnically composite, heterogeneous, mixed nature of the Mediterranean cities and their cultural heritage between the late middle ages and early modern …
Politics and Religion in the White South
Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War. Today, political strategists view the South as an …