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  • Africans in Exile

    Mobility, Law, and Identity

    by Ruma Chopra ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Almost Home

    Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

    by Ruma Chopra ...
    The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all oddsAfter being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Unnatural Rebellion

    Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution

    by Ruma Chopra ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. They hoped that British military strength would crush the minority rebellion and free the colonies to renegotiate their return to ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Choosing Sides

    Loyalists in Revolutionary America

    by Ruma Chopra ...
    Series series American Controversies
    Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s ties to the British Empire. Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America shows us that America’s ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

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  • Black and British

    A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

    by David Olusoga ...
    Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeWinner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ AwardLonglisted for the Orwell PrizeUnflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals how black British lives have been woven into the fabric of the nation for centuries – from Roman Britain to the Black Lives Matter protests.'Groundbreaking' – The Obser... ... Read more

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  • Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    From the author of King Leopold's Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men—a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery—came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another ... Read more

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  • Rogue States

    The Rule of Force in World Affairs

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  • Liberty's Exiles

    American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

    by Maya Jasanoff ...
    **NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty's Exiles tells their story.Maya Jasanoff ... Read more

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

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    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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  • America for Americans

    A History of Xenophobia in the United States

    by Erika Lee ...
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  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

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    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Read more

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