During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history...Loe edasi...
A stunning global history of West Africa ... with this new tour de force, Green confirms himself as the most innovative historian, writer, and thinker of his generation Ana Lucia Araujo, author of Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History o...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies on Black Women in US History
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009709408)
Showing how emotion was used to maintain, survive and resist slavery, this book significantly expands our knowledge of enslaved peoples lives in the US South. It will interest students and scholars of African American history, Atlantic history, and...Loe edasi...
Showing how emotion was used to maintain, survive and resist slavery, this book significantly expands our knowledge of enslaved peoples lives in the US South. It will interest students and scholars of African American history, Atlantic history, and...Loe edasi...
Delving into the literary history of the aesthetics of motion from 1650 to 1810, this important study makes the case for wantonness as an aesthetic category in itself, one that captures quasi-intentional actions and forms of agency across multiple g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009754439)
Delving into the literary history of the aesthetics of motion from 1650 to 1810, this important study makes the case for wantonness as an aesthetic category in itself, one that captures quasi-intentional actions and forms of agency across multiple g...Loe edasi...
William Sancho was the son of Ignatius Sancho, one of the eighteenth centurys most important Black Britons. This Element uncovers a multifaceted career that saw the younger Sancho undertake an apprenticeship and become a bookseller and rate-paying...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009625456)
William Sancho was the son of Ignatius Sancho, one of the eighteenth centurys most important Black Britons. This Element uncovers a multifaceted career that saw the younger Sancho undertake an apprenticeship and become a bookseller and rate-paying...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies.Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009751384)
Provides both scholars and general readers of African American poetry with a comprehensive history written by the leading scholars in the field focused on the unifying world-building practices of community and artistry. It conveys the stories of ind...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845166)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845142)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839452)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839469)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
Emancipation War chronicles the great military, political, and legal struggle that amended the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery once and for all-- Provided by publisher....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228026921)
This fascinating history explores the development of a distinctive national prose tradition in colonial Angola, tracing how intellectuals, writers, and citizens imagined the future nation in their literature....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469694849)
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and...Loe edasi...
This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism and environmental justice. In pairing twentieth- and twenty-first century works of black literature with multimedia texts from the envir...Loe edasi...
This book aims to briefly illustrate the colonisation process implemented by France and Great Britain in the Caribbean and to reconstruct the debate on colonialism and slavery that developed in these two countries, approaching the issue from the sta...Loe edasi...
Sari: Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Martinus Nijhoff, ISBN-13: 9789004760585)
Enslavement was central to the early modern Iberian empires. No one at the time seriously questioned its legality, yet widespread reports of violent practices of captivity and human trafficking contrasted sharply with the Christian ideal of charity....Loe edasi...
Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of Creolization in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190077631)
Both colonial and early nationalist writers of African history tried to minimize the importance of the slave trade in the study of Africas past and present. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the significance of the institution for prop...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250419941)
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out against slavery and oppression everywhere, or act cautiously to prot...Loe edasi...
Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad.Delving into the lives and stories of everyday men and women both escaping slavery and helping others escape, this book shows wha...Loe edasi...
This book challenges assumptions about race through the lens of nineteenth-century Cuba, addressing contemporary, transnational perspectives in Black and American studies. Through analyses of texts produced in the context of slavery, it invites stud...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009692830)
This book challenges assumptions about race through the lens of nineteenth-century Cuba, addressing contemporary, transnational perspectives in Black and American studies. Through analyses of texts produced in the context of slavery, it invites stud...Loe edasi...
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history...Loe edasi...
A stunning global history of West Africa ... with this new tour de force, Green confirms himself as the most innovative historian, writer, and thinker of his generation Ana Lucia Araujo, author of Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807185735)
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertels Seeking Freedom in Indian Country is the first comprehensive study of African chattel slavery within the Five Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations. Oertel examines how chattel sl...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies on Black Women in US History
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009709408)
Showing how emotion was used to maintain, survive and resist slavery, this book significantly expands our knowledge of enslaved peoples lives in the US South. It will interest students and scholars of African American history, Atlantic history, and...Loe edasi...
Showing how emotion was used to maintain, survive and resist slavery, this book significantly expands our knowledge of enslaved peoples lives in the US South. It will interest students and scholars of African American history, Atlantic history, and...Loe edasi...
Delving into the literary history of the aesthetics of motion from 1650 to 1810, this important study makes the case for wantonness as an aesthetic category in itself, one that captures quasi-intentional actions and forms of agency across multiple g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009754439)
Delving into the literary history of the aesthetics of motion from 1650 to 1810, this important study makes the case for wantonness as an aesthetic category in itself, one that captures quasi-intentional actions and forms of agency across multiple g...Loe edasi...
William Sancho was the son of Ignatius Sancho, one of the eighteenth centurys most important Black Britons. This Element uncovers a multifaceted career that saw the younger Sancho undertake an apprenticeship and become a bookseller and rate-paying...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009625456)
William Sancho was the son of Ignatius Sancho, one of the eighteenth centurys most important Black Britons. This Element uncovers a multifaceted career that saw the younger Sancho undertake an apprenticeship and become a bookseller and rate-paying...Loe edasi...
An original and outstanding new history of the New World... Magisterial Spectator An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies.Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376899)
Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery focuses on the development of tobacco as a plantation economyand the exponential increase in forced labor supporting itto suggest an alternat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376981)
We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the em...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376974)
We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the em...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376929)
Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a small-scale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slavery—a par...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009751384)
Provides both scholars and general readers of African American poetry with a comprehensive history written by the leading scholars in the field focused on the unifying world-building practices of community and artistry. It conveys the stories of ind...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James C...Loe edasi...
