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Richard Anderson
African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition

This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery. Including narrat…

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Eran A Zelnik
American Laughter, American Fury

"This work demonstrates how so-called "comical" practices, including not only jokes but also carnivalesque misrule, playing Indian, and wearing blackface helped white men cast "America…

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Timothy Olin
The Banat of Temesvar

"This book explores the establishment and development of a multi-ethnic frontier society on the Habsburg-Ottoman border, in the historic region of the Banat (today divided between Romania, Yugoslavia…

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J S Holliday
The World Rushed in

When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, ""It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush."" Twenty …

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Bernhard Struck, James Koranyi, Jan Koura
Modern Europe

Europe is a small continent, and yet it became the dominant global power from the late 18th century. While the continent appeared to become a global centre, it also experienced various fractures along con…

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Bernhard Struck, James Koranyi, Jan Koura
Modern Europe

Europe is a small continent, and yet it became the dominant global power from the late 18th century. While the continent appeared to become a global centre, it also experienced various fractures along con…

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R B Stratton
Captivity of the Oatman Girls

A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and …

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Gentilly

Between 1818 and 1851, Auvignac Dorville, a Louisiana Creole, managed the day-to-day operations of the Gentilly plantation, located a few miles from New Orleans along Bayou St. John. The plantation belong…

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James Marcus
Glad to the Brink of Fear

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American c…

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Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn, Lyndall Ryan
Empires of Violence

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions …

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Donna Loftus,
Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and…

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Catherine Osborne Decesare
Risk in the Anglo-Atlantic World

Using the experiences of the American ship, John Jay, and the British warship HMSDriver, this book recounts the various hazards faced by U.S. neutral trade vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.The John Jay'…

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Kathryn Dyt
The Nature of Kingship

"The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the int…

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Giuliana Perrone
Nothing More than Freedom

After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An …

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Aaron M Treadwell
Tongues of Fire

Tongues of Fire is a collection of sermons and other writings by Black preachers that speak directly to lynching in the Jim Crow era. The collection, expertly edited and annotated by Aaron M. Treadwell, f…

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Mark Twain Remembered

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more.A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow …

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Andrea Major,
Reimagining Empire in India

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s an…

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Ellen Gardner Nakamura,
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this b…

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White, William Ryan Smith, Peter Bolton Mangum
Shreveport Martyr Father Jean Pierre

Father Jean Pierre, a missionary priest from Brittany, France, answered a call to serve in sparsely populated Shreveport, where he chose to remain when a yellow fever epidemic struck in 1873. From a persp…

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Sandra Weber
John Brown in New York

An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favo…

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