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  • Stono

    Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt

    Edited by Mark M. Smith ...
    A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than sixty whites and thirty slaves died in the violence that followed. Among the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege

    A Sensory History of the Civil War

    by Mark M. Smith ...
    Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege, historian Mark M. Smith considers how all five senses, including sight, shaped the experience of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Slavery in North America Vol 1

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells, Mark M Smith ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 1 includes a general introduction and the colonial period covering slavery and the law, slave resistance, religion and slavery; and ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Slavery in North America Vol 3

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Mark M Smith, Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 3 includes the Antebellum Period from 1828 to 1859. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Slavery in North America Vol 4

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Mark M Smith, Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 4 includes the Civil War and Emancipation period from 1861 to 1866. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Slavery in North America Vol 2

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Mark M Smith, Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 2 includes the Revolutionary and Early National Period and covers the Anti-Slavery Impulse and Reaction to It and the Slave ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • How Race Is Made

    Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

    by Mark M. Smith ...
    For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses — not just their eyes — to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of “black” and “white” to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Mastered by the Clock

    Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South

    by Mark M. Smith ...
    Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy’s reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners — particularly masters and their slaves — came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Smell and History

    A Reader

    Edited by Mark M. Smith ...
    Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark M. Smith—one of the leading social and cultural historians at work today and the preeminent champion in the United States of the emerging field of sensory history—the volume introduces to undergraduate and graduate students as well as to ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $10.79 USD

  • Camille, 1969

    Histories of a Hurricane

    by Mark M. Smith ...
    Thirty-six years before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and southern Mississippi, the region was visited by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States: Camille.Mark M. Smith offers three highly original histories of the storm’s impact in southern Mississippi. In the first essay Smith examines the sensory experience and impact of the hurricane—how the storm rearranged ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Listening to Nineteenth-Century America

    by Mark M. Smith ...
    Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and silences they heard.Smith explores how northerners and southerners perceived the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi

    by Susan L. Cutter, Christopher T. Emrich, Jerry T. Mitchell, Walter W. Piegorsch, Mark M. Smith, Lynn Weber ...
    Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, ... Read more

    $52.49 USD