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  • Scotland's Mark on America

    Cultural Legacy: Scottish Influence on American Society and Culture

    by George Fraser Black ...
    In "Scotland's Mark on America," George Fraser Black intricately explores the profound and often overlooked influence of Scottish culture, history, and individuals on the development of the United States. Richly detailed and meticulously researched, Black employs a narrative style that deftly weaves together historical analysis with cultural commentary, presenting a compelling argument that ... Read more

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  • Scotland's Mark on America

    by George Fraser Black ...
    "Scotland's Mark on America" by George Fraser Black explores the profound influence of Scottish culture, people, and traditions on the development of American society. Black meticulously details the contributions of Scottish immigrants, highlighting their roles in various fields such as politics, education, and the arts. The book serves as a testament to the enduring legacy of Scottish heritage in ... Read more

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  • Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences

    Pelle the Conqueror, Little Aliens, The Italians, The Able McLaughlins, Mr. Dooley Says, etc.

    by Martin Andersen Nexø, Myra Kelly, Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, Margaret Wilson, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Finley Peter Dunne, Broughton Brandenburg, Mary Antin, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Peter A. Speek, George Fraser Black, Sui Sin Far, United States. Office of Education, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, John Robertson Henry, Council of Women for Home Missions, Home Missions Council, Eva Stern, Anzia Yezierska, Eustace Hale Ball, Stephen Graham, Emily P. Weaver, Thomas Ostenson Stine, J. P. MacLean, George T. Flom, Clara M. S. Lowe, Patrick Matthew, Scots New Zealand Land Company, F. S. Brereton, James Seton Cockburn, George A. Birmingham ...
    Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences offers a profound exploration of the immigrant narrative through an array of literary styles, from poignant autobiographies to insightful essays and fiction. This anthology embraces the complexity of the immigrant experience by collating stories that discuss the nuances of cultural identity, displacement, and assimilation. The works ... Read more

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  • Click: Ten Truths for Building Extraordinary Relationships

    by George Fraser ...
    One of America’s foremost authorities on networking reveals how you can connect with other people to realize business and life goalsPersonal growth guru Stephen Covey calls George Fraser a “masterful teacher.” TV host and journalist Tony Brown calls him a “visionary with the rare combination of leadership and management skills.” And each year, tens of thousands of people attend his seminars and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    From the author of King Leopold's Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men—a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery—came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another ... Read more

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  • Albion's Seed

    Four British Folkways in America

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Series series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... Read more

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  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Read more

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  • White Debt

    The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

    by Thomas Harding ...
    When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people in 1823, the largest in the British Empire and a key trigger in the abolition of slavery. Charting the dramatic build-up to this ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • An Empire on the Edge

    How Britain Came to Fight America

    by Nick Bunker ...
    Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent.In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years of mutual embitterment that ... Read more

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  • Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition

    by Eric Williams ...
    Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound ... Read more

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  • Puritan Village

    The Formation of a New England Town

    by Sumner Chilton Powell ...
    Pulitzer Prize Winner: "A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts." — TimeIn addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town's early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a ... Read more

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  • Benjamin Franklin in London

    The British Life of America's Founding Father

    by George Goodwin ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    An "enthralling" chronicle of the nearly two decades the statesman, scientist, inventor, and Founding Father spent in the British imperial capital (BBC Radio 4, Book of the Week).For more than a fifth of his life, Benjamin Franklin lived in London. He dined with prime ministers, members of parliament, even kings, as well as with Britain's most esteemed intellectuals—including David Hume, Joseph ... Read more

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