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Speeches of Frederick Douglass A Critical Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300192179, Yale University Press, October 2018
656 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.
This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, economic development, and immigration. Do...
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£15,00
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Origins of Cool in Postwar America
ISBN: PB: 9780226599069, ISBN: HB: 9780226152653, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
"Cool".  It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture.  "The Origins of Cool in Postwar America" uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came...
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£17,00
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£30,00
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New Abolition W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
ISBN: PB: 9780300230598, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of...
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£25,00
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Building the American Republic, Volume 2 A Narrative History from 1877
ISBN: PB: 9780226300825, ISBN: HB: 9780226300795, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 haltfones
Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Strangers on Familiar Soil Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection
ISBN: PB: 9780300230703, Yale University Press, November 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes wi...
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£20,00
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Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis
ISBN: PB: 9781883982911, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 18 halftones
The bustling river city of St. Louis occupies a special place in the long history of African American advocacy for civil rights and equal justice. The city was home to a small but thriving population of free blacks even before the Civil War. It was t...
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£7,50
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Little History of the United States
ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...
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£10,99
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£14,99
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Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886
ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones
On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...
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£37,50
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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780300190595, Yale University Press, March 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War...
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£12,00
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Fire under the Ashes An Atlantic History of the English Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226157658, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
In "Fire under the Ashes", John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of se...
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£39,00
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