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  • A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books

    Edited by Cyril Lemieux, Laurent Berger, Marielle Mace, Gildas Salmon, Cecile Vidal ...
    An intellectual history of the social sciences that offers a library of 101 books that broke new ground for the field.What are the social sciences? What unifies them? This essay collection seeks to answer these and other important questions as it considers how the field has developed over the years, from post–World War II to the present day throughout the world. Edited by Cyril Lemieux, Laurent ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Caribbean New Orleans

    Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society

    by Cécile Vidal ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cécile Vidal reveals the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Historians across Borders

    Writing American History in a Global Age

    Edited by Nicolas Barreyre, Michael Heale, Stephen Tuck, Cecile Vidal ...
    In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries.Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Louisiana

    Crossroads of the Atlantic World

    Edited by Cécile Vidal, Cecile Vidal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties, with parts ruled at various times by France, Spain, Britain, and finally the United States. But ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Louisiana

    Crossroads of the Atlantic World

    Edited by Cecile Vidal, Cécile Vidal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties, with parts ruled at various times by France, Spain, Britain, and finally the United States. But ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • More Than Chattel

    Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

    Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Accidental City

    Improvising New Orleans

    by Lawrence N. Powell ...
    This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Freedom Papers

    An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

    by Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard ...
    This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family’s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Strange History of the American Quadroon

    Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

    by Emily Clark ...
    Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition

    A Comparative History

    by Wim Klooster ...
    A new overview of the contentious period that witnessed revolutions around the Atlantic between 160 and 1830.Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American Revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book analyzes these events through a comparative lens, offering insights into the forces behind the many conflicts in the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of French New Orleans

    History of a Creole City

    by Dianne Guenin-Lelle ...
    What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD