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“lloyd s kramer”

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  • Traveling to Unknown Places

    Nineteenth-Century Journeys toward French and American Selfhood

    by Lloyd S. Kramer ...
    Traveling to Unknown Places presents a compelling, incisive analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their personal and collective identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Delving into the experiences of renowned figures like Flora Tristan and Margaret Fuller alongside lesser-known postrevolutionary ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Nationalism in Europe and America

    Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775

    by Lloyd S. Kramer ...
    Examining the history of nationalism’s pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world.Nationalism in Europe and America analyzes the multiple historical contexts and intellectual themes that have shaped modern nationalist ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Lafayette in Two Worlds

    Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions

    by Lloyd S. Kramer ...
    Lloyd Kramer offers a new interpretation of the cultural and political significance of the career of the Marquis de Lafayette, which spanned the American Revolution, the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1830, and the Polish Uprising of 1830–31. Moving beyond traditional biography, Kramer traces the wide-ranging influence of Lafayette’s public and personal life, including his contributions to the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

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    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    by Ian Jackson ...
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    Thomas Paine’s 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history’s most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution, it was so widely read that it remains the all-time best selling book in US history.An impassioned argument for American independence and for democratic government, Common Sense can claim to have helped ... Read more

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  • Silencing the Past

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    by Michel-Rolph Trouillot ...
    **20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Discover the pioneering classic of history, anthropology, and post-colonial studies—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.Part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck**Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the ... Read more

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  • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before” (Entertainment Weekly)“Probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. WoodA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington ... Read more

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  • Women, Race, & Class

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    **From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—**The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from ... Read more

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  • Thinking About History

    by Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

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  • Critique of Black Reason

    by Achille Mbembe ...
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    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, ... Read more

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  • Agony and Eloquence

    John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution

    by Daniel L. Mallock ...
    The drama of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is the foundational story of America-courage, loyalty, hope, fanaticism, greatness, failure, forgiveness, love.Agony and Eloquence is the story of the greatest friendship in American history and the revolutionary times in which it was made, ruined, and finally renewed.In the wake of Washington’s retirement, longtime friends Thomas Jefferson and John ... Read more

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