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by Aldo Schiavone
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system.
by Matt Hlinak, Geoffrey Wingard, Joseph Svinth
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The origins of Asian martial arts in the United States reach back to the Pacific Rim and immigration. This anthology is dedicated to the profoundly significant period—roughly from mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century—in which gifted Japanese taught...
New York Burning
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
In New York Burning,Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the...
by Samuel Ringgold Ward
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Samuel Ringgold Ward was born in the State of Maryland about the year 1817. His parents fled from slavery to Isew York, earning Samuel, in his infancy. His early education was received in connection with the African Free School, of that city, which was then taught by a gentleman of Scotch descent,...
The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade
Volumes 1 and 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book, here in an edition with both original volumes, is widely considered as Clarkson's most important work. Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was not only instrmuental in achieving the passage of the Slave...
Final Passages
The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies...
Unsettling Canada
A National Wake-Up Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Unsettling Canada is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.
Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the...
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly
The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote...
The Senator and the Sharecropper
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a...
Not Even Past
Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox...
by Ida B. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. Wells
In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies,...
Where the Waters Divide
Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies,...
by Rita J. Simon, Sarah Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation. The participants of...