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  • American Dark Age

    Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism

    by Keidrick Roy ...
    How a group of Black liberal thinkers challenged the race-based feudalism that reigned in the early American republicThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World. What they saw was a racially stratified country that reflected not the ideals of a modern republic but rather the remnants ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The White Image in the Black Mind

    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

    by Mia Bay ...
    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • American Lynching

    by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy ...
    A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas.After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States

    by Teresa Anne Murphy ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Manliness and Its Discontents

    The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930

    by Martin Summers ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • In the Name of the Father

    Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation

    by Francois Furstenberg ...
    In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred scripture and provided the foundation for a new civic culture, one whose reconciliation with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Invisible Sovereign

    Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Mark G. Schmeller ...
    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion.In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Philosopher

    John Locke in American Intellectual Life

    by Claire Rydell Arcenas ...
    America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history.The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on issues of identity, republicanism, and the nature of knowledge itself. Claire Rydell Arcenas's new book tells the story ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slavery

    A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

    by Stanley M. Elkins ...
    "Bold and original . . . [This book] fearlessly employs the methods and materials of history, economics, anthropology, and social psychology." —John Hope Franklin, Massachusetts ReviewThis third edition of Stanley M. Elkins's classic study offers two new chapters by the author. The first, "Slavery and Ideology," considers the discussion and criticism occasioned by this controversial work. Elkins ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

    by Nancy Isenberg ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women’s rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas — before and after 1848 — that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women’s rights activists of the antebellum ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Power in Modernity

    Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

    by Isaac Ariail Reed ...
    In Power in Modernity, Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space, create a vast network of intersecting alliances, subordinations, redistributions, and violent exclusions. Reed traces the common action of "sending ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making The American Self : Jonathan Edwards To Abraham Lincoln

    by Daniel Walker Howe ...
    Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of the most precious liberties Americans have always cherished is the ability to "make something of themselves"--to choose not only an occupation but ... Read more

    $17.09 USD