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  • Moral Capital

    Foundations of British Abolitionism

    de Christopher Leslie Brown ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time, particularly the anxieties ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Arming Slaves

    From Classical Times to the Modern Age

    Edición de Christopher Leslie Brown, Philip D. Morgan ...
    Series series The David Brion Davis Series
    Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • White Over Black

    American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    de Winthrop D. Jordan ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen’s and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan’s text is still the definitive work ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    de Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Leer más

    $15.09 USD

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  • El Norte

    The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

    de Carrie Gibson ...
    A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of Slavery

    A New Global History

    de Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the present in the form of contemporary crimes such as trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Empire's Crossroads

    A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

    de Carrie Gibson ...
    A "wide-ranging, vivid" narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean ( The Observer).Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    de Prof. J. H. Elliott FBA ...
    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Mosquito Empires

    Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914

    de J. R. McNeill ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Servants of Allah

    African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

    de Sylviane A Diouf ...
    An illuminating study of how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora.It is widely assumed that the faith enslaved West African Muslims brought to the Americas was quickly absorbed into their new Christian milieu. Yet, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, groundbreaking volume, Islam flourished ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Atlantic World

    Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History, 1400–1900

    de Thomas Benjamin ...
    From 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures, economies, and ideas throughout the Atlantic arena. The Atlantic World provides a comprehensive and lucid history of ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • What Is America?

    A Short History of the New World Order

    de Ronald Wright ...
    In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we've traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow. This raises the question, has America ever been what it thinks it is? What Is America? goes to the heart of that inquiry. Ranging with dazzling expertise ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD