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“bruce w eelman”

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  • The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century

    by Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf, Don H. Doyle, Sally Hadden, Sonya Ramsey, Jennie Goloboy, Bruce W. Eelman, Amanda R. Mushal, Frank Towers, James Oakes, John G. Deal ...
    Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes—planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    by Edward E Baptist ...
    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Children of Fire

    A History of African Americans

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    "Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Distinct Alien Race

    The Untold Story of Franco-Americans, Industrialization, Immigration, Religious strife

    by David Vermette ...
    Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, they were cast as foot soldiers in an alleged Roman Catholic plot. A Distinct Alien Race places these ... Read more

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  • Teaching White Supremacy

    America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    by Donald Yacovone ...
    **A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“Stunning, timely . . . an achievement ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    by Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Slavery's Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    Edited by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Monied Metropolis

    New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

    by Sven Beckert ...
    This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power, and decisively put their mark on the age. Professor Beckert explores how capital-owning New Yorkers overcame their distinct ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Bound in Wedlock

    Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

    by Tera W. Hunter ...
    Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Mary Nickliss PrizeWinner of the Willie Lee Rose PrizeAmericans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This ... Read more

    $16.59 USD