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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andrew n wegmann”
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  • An American Color

    Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World

    by Andrew N. Wegmann ...
    Series Book 40 - Race in the Atlantic World
    For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every “rule” of accepted U.S. historiography. A frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, the popular image of New Orleans has remained a vestige of North America’s European colonial era rather than an Atlantic city on the southern coast of the United States.Beginning with the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations

    by Ikuko Asaka, Celso Thomas Castilho, Gad Heuman, Martha S. Jones, Philip Kaisary, Paul J Polgar, James E Sanders, Matthew Spooner, Caree A. Banton, Andrew N. Wegmann ...
    Series series
    Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation was an Atlantic event, it has been studied most often in geographically isolated ways. The ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • French Connections

    Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600–1875

    by Brett Rushforth, Ryan André Brasseaux, Jay Gitlin, Karen L. Marrero, Guillaume Teasdale, Robert D. Taber, Christopher Hodson, Gregory Kennedy, Leslie Choquette, William Brown, Mairi Cowan, Vincent Auffrey ...
    French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Met by the Love of Liberty

    History and Identity in Americo-Liberian Memory

    by Jo M. Sullivan, Ruth Vida Amwe, William E. Allen, Marie Stango, Eric Burin, Luisa Schneider, John Victor Singler ...
    Initially founded as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822 and declared an independent republic in 1847, the Republic of Liberia has challenged scholars across disciplines for almost as long as it has existed. Despite its territory being the home of Indigenous peoples for centuries, Liberia was imagined as a plan to relocate people of color primarily from the United States to West ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

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    The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

    by David Brion Davis ...
    David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in ... Read more

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  • More Than Chattel

    Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

    Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to ... Read more

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  • Black Ghost of Empire

    The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

    by Kris Manjapra ...
    If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system—instead of obliterating it.To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the ... Read more

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  • Our Sister Republics

    The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

    by Caitlin Fitz ...
    Winner of the James H. Broussard First Book PrizePROSE Award in U.S. History (Honorable Mention)A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it ... Read more

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  • The Story of French New Orleans

    History of a Creole City

    by Dianne Guenin-Lelle ...
    What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery

    Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

    by John Garrison Marks ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority—and linked ... Read more

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  • Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World

    by Sue Peabody ...
    This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was a profoundly gendered process, produced through connections between race, gender, sexuality, and ... Read more

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  • Louisiana

    Crossroads of the Atlantic World

    Edited by Cécile Vidal, Cecile Vidal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties, with parts ruled at various times by France, Spain, Britain, and finally the United States. But ... Read more

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