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  • The Merchants' Capital

    New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Scott P. Marler ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    by Edward E Baptist ...
    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

    Was $20.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Making of African America

    The Four Great Migrations

    by Ira Berlin ...
    A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuriesFour great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Republic for Which It Stands

    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

    by Richard White ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Founding Finance

    How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation

    by William Hogeland ...
    Series series Discovering America
    The author of The Whiskey Rebellion "dig[s] beneath history's surface and note[s] both the populist and anti-populist dimensions of the nation's founding" ( Library Journal).Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and ... Read more

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  • Children of Fire

    A History of African Americans

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    "Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Distinct Alien Race

    The Untold Story of Franco-Americans, Industrialization, Immigration, Religious strife

    by David Vermette ...
    Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, they were cast as foot soldiers in an alleged Roman Catholic plot. A Distinct Alien Race places these ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    by Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Slavery's Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    Edited by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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