Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (Willis Deborah)(Paperback)

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (Willis Deborah)(Paperback)

The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?In their pioneering book, Envisioning Emancipation, renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis 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

Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest (Harbour Jennifer R.)(Paperback)

Organizing Freedom is a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, author Jennifer R. Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance through which

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (Metaxas Eric)(Paperback)

Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a

Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850 (Brahm Felix)(Paperback)

Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business,

The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom (Delle James A.)(Pevná vazba)

Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, James Delle presents the first overview of archaeological research on the topic in this book, debunking the notion that the 'free' states of the Northeast truly

Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (Marhoefer Laurie)(Paperback)

Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Gikandi Simon)(Paperback)

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

Black Ivory 2e (Walvin James)(Paperback)

The terrible story of African slavery in the British colonies of the West Indies and North America is told with clarity and compassion in this classic

The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois W. E. B.)(Paperback)

W. E. B. Du Bois' insightful commentary on Black history, racism, and the struggles of Black Americans following emancipation--a masterpiece in the African-American canon 'Jonathan Holloway introduces W. E. B. Du Bois' 1903 classic for our time, when visions of a 'post-racial' America clash with

A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History (Black Jeremy)(Paperback)

A new global history of slavery from its ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present

The Essential Ellen Willis (Willis Ellen)(Paperback)

Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular music, taking on such issues as pornography,

The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Wood Marcus)(Pevná vazba)

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has

The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom (Walcott Rinaldo)(Pevná vazba)

In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential

The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom (Walcott Rinaldo)(Paperback)

A History of African-American Leadership (White John)(Paperback)

The story of black emancipation is one of the most dramatic themes of American history, covering racism, murder, poverty and extreme heroism. Figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the demigods of the freedom movements, both film and household figures. This major text explores the

Americans and the Making of the Riviera (Nelson Michael)(Paperback)

Led by Cole Porter in the 1920s, Americans demonstrated that the best season to visit the French Riviera was not the winter, as had been the practice, but the summer. With this shift, Americans became the dominant shapers of tourism on the Riviera in the 20th century, yet the American achievement

Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West (Cook Deborah)(Paperback)

The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and

Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection (Devine Tom M.)(Paperback)

For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist

The Americans from the Ardennes to Ve Day (Blades Brooke S.)(Paperback)

The third and final volume of the author's Americans in North-West Europe series covers the historic period December 1944 to May 1945.Launched in December 1944, the Nazis' Ardennes offensive, known as the Battle of the Bulge, was one of the most dangerous periods of the War. During six weeks of

The Fifth Sacred Thing (Starhawk)(Paperback)

An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on

On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation (Boltanski Luc)(Paperback)

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of

Tradition and Emancipation in Horace and Alexander Pope (Ohsumi Megumi)(Pevná vazba)

In Tradition and Emancipation, Japanese scholar Megumi Ohsumi explores the mimetic encounters of classical material across Alexander Pope's poetry. Focusing particularly on Pope's Horatian Imitations, Ohsumi attempts to identify the extent to which mimesis plays a role in Pope's oeuvre. Horace has

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