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  • Emancipation

    The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

    by Peter Kolchin ...
    In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great ReformsThe two largest transitions from unfree to free labor of the many that occurred in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth century took place in the United States and in Russia. Both occurred in the 1860s, and in both the former slaves and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Emancipation

    The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

    by Peter Kolchin ...
    Narrated by Keith Brown ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 12 min

    In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great ReformsThe two largest transitions from unfree to free labor of the many that occurred in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth century took place in the United States and in Russia. Both occurred in the 1860s, and in both the former slaves and ... Read more

    $41.21 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Unfree Labor

    American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

    by Peter Kolchin ...
    Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • A Sphinx on the American Land

    The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective

    by Peter Kolchin ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    One reason that the South attracts so much interest is that its history inevitably involves big questions—continuity versus change, slavery and freedom, the meaning of “race,” the formation of national identity, the struggle between local and centralized authority. Because these issues are central to human experience, southern history properly conceived is of more than regional interest. In A ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Sphinx on the American Land

    The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective

    by Peter Kolchin ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    One reason that the South attracts so much interest is that its history inevitably involves big questions—continuity versus change, slavery and freedom, the meaning of “race,” the formation of national identity, the struggle between local and centralized authority. Because these issues are central to human experience, southern history properly conceived is of more than regional interest. In A ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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    The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict

    by Andre M. Fleche ...
    Series series Civil War America
    It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor the world over influenced American interpretations of the strains on the Union and the growing ... Read more

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  • The American Revelation

    Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War

    by Neil Baldwin ...
    Neil Baldwin, one of the most exciting intellectual historians, has written extensively about the great thinkers and innovators who have shaped our unique American identity. In THE AMERICAN REVELATION, he turns his energies to the unfolding story of how the American spirit developed over 400 years.This inspiring examination of the ideals that have grown to inform our national identity and of the ... Read more

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  • Shifting Grounds

    Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865

    by Paul Quigley ...
    Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet. The conflict over slavery that led to the Civil War forced them to confront the difficult problems of nationalism. What made a nation a nation? Could an individual or a group change nationality at will? What were the rights and responsibilities of national citizenship? Why should nations exist at all? ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Slavery's Ghost

    The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

    by Richard Follett, Eric Foner, Walter Johnson ...
    Series series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
    "Three thoughtful contributions . . . attempt to deepen and extend an emerging discussion about the limits to African American freedom and autonomy." — Slavery & AbolitionPresident Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

    by Jon Meacham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before” (Entertainment Weekly)“Probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. WoodA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Women, Race, & Class

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    **From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—**The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from ... Read more

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  • The History of White People

    by Nell Irvin Painter ...
    A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent ... Read more

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