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  • ‘Malleable at the European Will’: British Discourse on Slavery (1784–1824) and the Image of Africans

    de Dr. Helmut Meier ...
    Helmut Meier‘s study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784–1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on the slave trade and slavery as such. Starting from the premise that, at the threshold from the early to the late modern period, the distinct image of Africans as slaves was instrumental in universalizing a Eurocentric concept of capitalist wage labor ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

    de Bernard Bailyn ...
    **The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning classic.“One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book.” —New York Times Book Review**“[This book] influenced an entire generation of historians. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution.” —Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street JournalAwarded both the Pulitzer and the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Inventing America

    Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

    de Garry Wills ...
    From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $29.59 USD

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Enlarged Edition

    de Bernard Bailyn ...
    To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Origins of American Politics

    de Bernard Bailyn ...
    "An astonishing range of reading in contemporary tracts and modern authorities is manifest, and many aspects of British and colonial affairs are illuminated. As a political analysis this very important contribution will be hard to refute...."—Frederick B. Tolles, Political Science Quarterly"He produces historical analysis which is as revealing to the political scientist or sociologist as to the ... Leer más

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  • Liberty as Independence

    The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

    de Quentin Skinner ...
    What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transformed this idea into ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

    Rereading the Principle of Population

    de Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin ...
    An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • Separated by Their Sex

    Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Lucky Valley

    Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789–1802

    de Wil Verhoeven ...
    This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of 'America' came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • European Christianity and the Atlantic Slave Trade: a Black Hermeneutical Study

    de Rev. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood ...
    Accomplishments are tabulations of a journey in life. Life's journey can be unpredictable. Some areas are pleasant and memorable. Some are vicissitudes karmically designed to serve the formations of one's character, development and contributions to society and one's profession. It is philosophically significant to immortalise positive things. When this is done, the persons who have been the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD