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  • How Curious a Land

    Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885

    The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county’s social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Dark Places of the Earth

    The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope

    **Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in HistoryA dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant—and long forgotten—Supreme Court cases in American history.**In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the international slave ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

    Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city’s founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

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    Dark Places of the Earth

    The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope

    Lu par Tom Zingarelli ...

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    10 heure 58 min

    A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant--and long-forgotten--Supreme Court cases in American history. In 1820, the slave ship Antelope was captured off the Florida coast. Though the slave trade was prohibited, slavery was still legal in half of the United States, and it was left to the Supreme Court to determine whether nearly 300 Africans on board were ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave

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    On July 4, 1861, the schooner S.J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limped back into New York's harbor with the ship's black cook and steward at the helm. While the story of that ill-fated voyage is one of the most harrowing tales of captivity and survival on the high seas, it has been tragically lost to history. Now reclaiming William ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    Galaxy Girls

    50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space

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    3 heure 7 min

    A groundbreaking compendium honoring the amazing true stories of fifty inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in space exploration from the nineteenth century to today—including Hidden Figure’s Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson, the record-holding American biochemistry researcher who has spent the most cumulative ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

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    The Knowledge Machine

    How Irrationality Created Modern Science

    Lu par Julian Elfer ...

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    8 heure 16 min

    A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.Captivatingly written, interwoven with historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Michael Strevens's wholly original investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    How the Post Office Created America

    A History

    Lu par Tavia Gilbert ...

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    10 heure 45 min

    A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development.The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important ... En savoir plus

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    Lincoln on the Verge

    Thirteen Days to Washington

    par Ted Widmer ...
    Lu par Fred Sanders ...

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    16 heure 53 min

    WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE“A Lincoln classic...superb.” —The Washington Post“A book for our time.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic.As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln... ... En savoir plus

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  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    par Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... En savoir plus

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    par Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... En savoir plus

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