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  • The Sweet Taste of Empire

    Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean

    by Kim Hall ...
    A look at how seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slaveryOver the course of the seventeenth century, sugar prices fell drastically. As this newly affordable luxury made its way from royal entertainments to the closets of home cooks in ever increasing quantities, sugar bound England’s ... Read more

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  • The Sweet Taste of Empire

    Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean

    by Kim Hall ...
    How seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slaveryOver the course of the seventeenth century, sugar prices fell drastically. As this newly affordable luxury made its way from royal entertainments to the closets of home cooks in ever increasing quantities, sugar bound England’s fortunes to ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • How Fortunate!

    The Lady Liberty Series, #1

    by Kim Hall ...
    Series Book 1 - The Lady Liberty Series
    At fifteen, Margot Heartily accidentally walked into a fortune teller's tent at the Houston rodeo. The fortune teller predicted great success, but with a twist: the success would be taken away with a quick turn of events.At twenty-eight, Margot Heartily is the most successful she has ever been: she lives in New York, and is in line to receive a huge promotion at her high-profile job at a major ... Read more

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  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    by Jennifer L. Morgan ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Reckoning with Slavery

    Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

    by Jennifer L. Morgan ...
    In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • American Literature in Context to 1865

    by Susan Castillo ...
    American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaningCovers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865Designed to ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Memory Lands

    King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

    by Christine M. DeLucia ...
    Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
    Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Lucky Valley

    Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism

    by Catherine Hall ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the island, and drawing on poetry and engravings, in his efforts to establish a clear and fixed racialized hierarchy. His White family sat ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Unbecoming British : How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation

    How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation

    by Kariann Akemi Yokota ...
    What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the Americans about their cultural inferiority and continuing dependence on the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Separated by Their Sex

    Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World

    by Mary Beth Norton ...
    In Separated by Their Sex**, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century.** Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon's Rebellion by the actions of—and reactions to—Lady Frances ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

    by Jeremy Chow, Elliot Patsoura, Annette Hulbert, Adam Sweeting, Shelby Johnson, Mariah Crilley, Claire Campbell, Jason Payton, Matt Duquès, Ami Yoon0, Christopher Allan Black1, Kate Scarth2 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. ... Read more

    $28.09 USD