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  • Congress and the People’s Contest

    The Conduct of the Civil War

    by Jonathan Earle, Eric Walther, Lesley J. Gordon, Fergus M. Bordewich, Jenny Bourne, Mischa Honeck, L. Diane Barnes, Chandra Manning, Nikki M. Taylor ...
    Series series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
    The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time it met, the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Texas Women

    Their Histories, Their Lives

    by Juliana Barr, Angela Boswell, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Light T. Cummins, Victoria H. Cummins, Mary Ellen Curtin, W. Marvin Dulaney, Gabriela González, Ruth Hosey Karbach, Renee M. Laegreid, Paula Mitchell Marks, Judith N. McArthur, Laura Lyons McLemore, Bianca Mercado, Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, Robin C. Sager, Harold L. Smith, Jean A. Stuntz, Kelli Cardenas Walsh, Eric Walther, Nancy Elizabeth Baker ...
    Series Book 11 - Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
    Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories mirror a larger American narrative. The biographies and essays illustrate an uncommon diversity among ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would find out that he had indeed worked a great deal for civil rights anonymously behind the scenes. Up ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • North to Bondage

    Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

    by Harvey Amani Whitfield ...
    Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America.The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Legal Understanding of Slavery

    From the Historical to the Contemporary

    Edited by Jean Allain ...
    "Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised." So reads the legal definition of slavery agreed by the League of Nations in 1926. Further enshrined in law during international negotiations in 1956 and 1998, this definition has been interpreted in different ways by the international courts in the intervening ... Read more

    $133.99 USD

  • Slavery, Law, and Politics

    The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective

    by Don E. Fehrenbacher ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing a masterful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law

    by Daniel Högger ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of international law, it is a truly unique contribution to the literature of international law and relations. Pursuing both a global and an interdisciplinary approach, the Handbook ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Mummies Secrets of the Pharoahs: Ancient Egypt for Kids | Children's Archaeology Books Edition

    by Baby Professor ...
    Jump back in time with the help of this highly educational book. Here, your child will be learning with pharaohs and going inside pyramids where mummies lay silent. It's a cool book to have because it widens your child's understanding of the ancient Egyptian civilization and how societies have changed since then. Buy a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion

    by Christopher Michael Curtis ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's postcolonial political culture. The book explains how the traditional ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Driven toward Madness

    The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

    by Nikki M. Taylor ...
    Series series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies
    Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Yet, her life has defied solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness, Nikki M. Taylor ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Homicide Justified

    The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World

    by Andrew T. Fede ...
    Series Book 2 - Southern Legal Studies
    This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters’ rights to severely punish ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • University, Court, and Slave

    Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War

    by Alfred L. Brophy ...
    University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of people-and profited from their labor while many slaves endured physical abuse on campuses. As Alfred L. Brophy shows, southern universities fought the emancipation movement for economic reasons, but used their ... Read more

    $17.09 USD