American Slavery - 1619-1877 (Kolchin Peter)(Paperback / softback)

American Slavery - 1619-1877 (Kolchin Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, this book chronologically documents the historical evolution of slavery in the

American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Williams Heather Andrea)(Paperback)

Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the

Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition (Schomburg Center)(Paperback)

A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young This is the first

Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America (Musselwhite Paul)(Paperback)

Provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial

American Slavery, American Freedom (Morgan Edmund S.)(Paperback)

In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only the Declaration but also the Constitution and

American Uprising (Rasmussen Daniel)(Paperback)

'Breathtaking. [Rasmussen's] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself--about how fiction can become fact, and how 'history' is sometimes nothing more than erasure.' --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'Deeply

American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898 (McMath Robert)(Paperback)

From the first crises in America's farming regions in the 1870s through the fracture and demise of grass-roots protest organizations at the end of the century. American Populism chronicles the Populists' battles with the dominant institutions of an industrializing nation. In this readable and

Slavery: Interpreting American History (Astor Aaron)(Paperback)

A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and their descendants have lived in North America. Contemporaries and later writers and scholars up

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (Bernstein Robin)(Paperback)

2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 2012 Runner-Up, John

American Prince - My Autobiography (Golenbock Peter)(Paperback / softback)

He has appeared in over a hundred films. Elvis copied his looks. The Beatles put him on the cover of Sgt. Pepper. Tony Curtis is without question a Hollywood legend and part of its Golden Age. In American Prince he tells the whole story, from his hard-knock childhood growing up in the Bronx to his

Cannabis - An American History(Paperback / softback)

American Dream (Mailer Norman)(Paperback / softback)

American Drolleries (Twain Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Teaching American English Pronunciation (Avery Peter)(Paperback)

This introduction to the pronunciation of American English describes the sound system, suggests ways of tackling pronunciation problems, and provides a variety of techniques and exercises for use in the

Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (Diouf Sylviane A.)(Paperback)

Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Smallwood Stephanie E.)(Paperback)

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market

Swan Lake, Ballet in Four Acts, Op.20: Study score (Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich)(Paperback)

Newly edited and engraved study score for the original 1877 version of Tchaikovsky's first ballet masterpiece. Includes Preface, Synopsis, and Cast of Characters. This is the complete orchestral score, not a piano reduction, based upon the composer's autograph, the first edition issued by P

I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton (Watterson Kathryn)(Paperback)

A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic Black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy-League towns--Princeton, New Jersey

American Football Fraud (Maddox Jake)(Paperback / softback)

All-American Murder (Patterson James)(Paperback / softback)

Concise Untold History of the United States (Stone Oliver)(Paperback / softback)

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama

Homeward Bound - The Life of Paul Simon (Carlin Peter Ames)(Paperback / softback)

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames

Elephant (Carnavas Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Peter O'Brien (Actor)(Paperback / softback)