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  • Bound in Wedlock

    Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

    de Tera W. Hunter ...
    Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Mary Nickliss PrizeWinner of the Willie Lee Rose PrizeAmericans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • To ’Joy My Freedom

    Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War

    de Tera W. Hunter ...
    As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta—the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south—in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Labor Histories

    Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience

    de Bruce Laurie, Reeve Huston, Shelton Stromquist, Cecelia Bucki, Tera W. Hunter, Gunther Peck, Kathryn J Oberdeck, Kimberley L. Phillips0, Ileen A DeVault1, James R. Barrett2, Peter Rachleff3 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    de Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A History of Women in America

    From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

    de Carol Hymowitz, Michaele Weissman ...
    From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society.Note: This edition does not include photographs. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    de Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Imagining Black America

    de Michael Wayne ...
    Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945

    de Beth Tompkins Bates ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics — which was grounded in making demands and backing them up ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Reckoning with Race

    America's Failure

    de Gene Dattel ...
    Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem—race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's exclusive racial scapegoat. The book moves to the Great Migration north and the urban ghettos which still plague America.Importantly, the evergreen ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Still Fighting the Civil War

    The American South and Southern History

    de David Goldfield ...
    In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

    de Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class — including merchants, doctors, and teachers — that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD