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  • America on the World Stage

    A Global Approach to U.S. History

    Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing ... Leer más

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  • Sea and Land

    An Environmental History of the Caribbean

    Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and as far away as Asia. It examines first the arrival of Native American to the region ... Leer más

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  • Arming Slaves

    From Classical Times to the Modern Age

    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

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  • Atlantic History

    A Critical Appraisal

    Edición de Jack P. Greene, Philip D. Morgan ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a comprehensive and incisive look at how Atlantic history has been interpreted across time and through a variety of ... Leer más

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  • The Slaves' Economy

    Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

    Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy. ... Leer más

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  • Strangers Within the Realm

    Cultural Margins of the First British Empire

    Edición de Bernard Bailyn, Philip D. Morgan ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean.An introduction surveys British imperial historiography and provides a context for the volume as a whole. The essays focus on specific ethnic groups ... Leer más

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  • Colonial Chesapeake Society

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century.Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted ... Leer más

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    Series series New Oxford World History
    As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives of people everywhere. American foods enriched their diets. Furs, precious metals, dyes, and many other products underwrote new luxury trades, and tobacco became the first consumer craze as the price ... Leer más

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  • Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas

    This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders. ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of Slavery

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    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

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  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

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    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great ... Leer más

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  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    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

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