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  • Music, Hope and Transformation through Higher Education

    A Psychogeographic Personal Narrative

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    This is a creative work of psychogeography, theory and autoethnography, which offers a unique insight into the personal world of music-meaning-making, working-class heritage, and the transformation of identity through a life-long obsession with aeroplanes and flight. Combined, these aspects articulate a progressive journey of transformation through informal learning and higher education, exploring ... Leer más

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  • The Centrality of Slavery

    Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri

    Series series Early American Studies
    How French and American colonizers created systems of enslavement in the Middle Mississippi ValleyThe Centrality of Slavery examines how French and American colonizers used the powers of various imperial regimes to create slave societies in present-day Missouri and Illinois from the 1720s through the 1820s. The first book-length study of slavery and empire in both Illinois and Missouri, it begins ... Leer más

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  • The Centrality of Slavery

    Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri

    Series series Early American Studies
    How French and American colonizers created systems of enslavement in the Middle Mississippi ValleyThe Centrality of Slavery examines how French and American colonizers used the powers of various imperial regimes to create slave societies in present-day Missouri and Illinois from the 1720s through the 1820s. The first book-length study of slavery and empire in both Illinois and Missouri, it begins ... Leer más

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  • A Fire Bell in the Past

    The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I, Western Slavery, National Impasse

    Series Libro 1 - Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment confronted the southern whites’ aggressive calls for ... Leer más

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  • Continent in Crisis

    The U.S. Civil War in North America

    Series series Reconstructing America
    Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the ... Leer más

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  • Revolutionary Prophecies

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    Series series Jeffersonian America
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  • Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West

    Series series Jeffersonian America
    Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding fathers" such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West, John Craig Hammond looks beyond elite leadership and examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western ... Leer más

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  • The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

    The Global Vision of a Turkish Filmmaker

    Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and ... Leer más

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  • Contesting Slavery

    The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation

    Series series Jeffersonian America
    Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians’ understanding of the problem of slavery in American politics. Contesting Slavery builds on the best of that literature to reexamine the politics of slavery in revolutionary America and the early republic.The original essays collected here analyze the Revolutionary era and the early republic on their own ... Leer más

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  • A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume II

    “The Missouri Question” and Its Answers

    Series Libro 2 - Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment confronted the aggressive westward expansion of the ... Leer más

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  • American Revolutions

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