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  • Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860

    by Thomas D. Morris ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Slavery & the Law

    by Derrick Bell, Jonathan A. Bush, Jacob I. Corré, Michael Kent Curtis, William W. Fisher III, James Oliver Horton, Lois Horton, Thomas D. Morris, Thomas D. Russell, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Alan Watson, Ariela Gross, Sanford Levinson ...
    Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

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  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Characters

    What Made the Founders Different

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!"Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best." —The Philadelphia Inquirer**In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, What made these men great, and shows us, among many other things, just how much ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Empire of Liberty:A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

    A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Lincoln and the Abolitionists

    John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    "Anyone who wants to understand the United States' racial divisions will learn a lot from reading Kaplan's richly researched account of one of the worst periods in American history and its chilling effects today in our cities, legislative bodies, schools, and houses of worship." — St. Louis Post-DispatchThe acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan returns with a controversial exploration of how Abraham ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Freedoms We Lost

    Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

    by Barbara Clark Smith ...
    A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian's curator of social history.The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in "freedom" as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R.B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington Franklin Jefferson Adams ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    “One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.” — New York Times Book Review“During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one.” — William and Mary Quarterly“[A] ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Long Emancipation

    The Demise of Slavery in the United States

    by Ira Berlin ...
    Series Book 14 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • Lincoln

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. If Lincoln ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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