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“henry goldschmidt”

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  • Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas

    Edited by Henry Goldschmidt, Elizabeth McAlister ...
    This collection of all new essays will explore the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion that have helped to produce "Black," "White," "Creole," "Indian," "Asian," and other racialized identities and communities in the Americas. Drawing on original research in a range of disciplines, the authors will investigate: 1) how the intertwined categories of race and religion have defined ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    "Reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation." —Angela Y. Davis, author of Women, Race & ClassIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness ... Read more

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  • Inventing Western Civilization

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    "In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society."--Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe. He lays out clearly and simply how civilization, ... Read more

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  • Equality

    The History of an Elusive Idea

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    The definitive history of the idea of equality—and why we’re so ambivalent about itEquality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly skeptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?Darrin ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Humanity

    Equality and Cultural Difference in World History

    by Siep Stuurman ...
    For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present.Despite humans’ deeply ingrained bias against strangers, ... Read more

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  • Plantation Church

    How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery

    by Noel Leo Erskine ...
    Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about "the Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black ... Read more

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  • Polygamy

    An Early American History

    by M. S. Pearsall ...
    A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America"A richly sourced, elegantly written, and strikingly original interdisciplinary study of the diverse practices of polygamy in American from ca.1500 to 1900."—John Witte Jr., Journal of Law and ReligionToday we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement ... Read more

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  • Religion in the Lands That Became America

    A New History

    by Thomas A. Tweed ...
    A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information AgeUntil now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English settlers in Jamestown or Plymouth and remained predominantly Protestant and Atlantic. Driven by his strong sense of the historical and moral shortcomings of ... Read more

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  • American Intellectual History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen ...
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    Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of ... Read more

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  • Freedom as Marronage

    by Neil Roberts ...
    What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage—a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. ... Read more

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  • Colonialism and Its Legacies

    by Taiaike Alfred, Dipesh Chakabarty, Enrique Dussel, Emmanuel Eze, Vicki Hsueh, Margaret Kohn, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jennifer Pitts, Ofelia Schutte, Jessé Souza, Iris Marion Young, Sankar Muthu, Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects structured and shaped much of modern political theory, how concepts from political philosophy ... Read more

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