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The Black Military Experienceby Ira BerlinISBN 0521229847 (0-521-22984-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Destruction of Slaveryby Ira BerlinISBN 0521229790 (0-521-22979-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Destruction of Slavery'Book summary:This is the first of a series of documentary histories of emancipation designed to tell the story of the transit of black people from slavery to freedom in the United States. The series will provide a social history of emancipation, written in the words of the emancipated. This volume explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery, and how the experience of soldiering shaped the life of black people (in the army and out) during and after the war; it also provides a social history of black soldiers. [via]
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A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 Series I, Vol. 3by Ira Berlin , Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. RowlandISBN 0521394937 (0-521-39493-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil Warby Ira Berlin , Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. RowlandISBN 0521634490 (0-521-63449-0)
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slavesby Ira BerlinISBN 0674016246 (0-674-01624-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North Americaby Ira BerlinISBN 0674002113 (0-674-00211-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America'Book summary:When Americans look at slavery, they conjure up images of tired black bodies picking cotton from sunup to sundown under Southern skies. That image is partly true, but, as the noted history professor Ira Berlin details, the lives of slaves in America's racist system were complex and diverse. "Viewing slavery through the perspective of what slaves did most of the time," Berlin writes, "provides a means to draw some fundamental distinctions and find some essential commonalities among the various experiences of North America."
Berlin reveals the color-caste codes of the Afro-Creoles of the Chesapeake, the survival of African culture in the South Carolina-Georgia-Florida coastal area, and the intermingling of Africans with French and Spanish in the Mississippi Delta area. He weaves a woeful and wondrous tale of the mores, occupations, conflicts, wars, and rebellions that made up the ongoing relationships between masters and slaves. Many Thousands Gone is an excellent companion to Philip D. Morgan's Slave Counterpoint, revealing the influence the "peculiar institution" of slavery had on those of African and European descent alike. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Power and Culture: An Essayby Herbert G. Gutman, Ira BerlinISBN 0394560264 (0-394-56026-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolutionby Ira BerlinISBN 0252013638 (0-252-01363-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Slavery, Resistance, Freedomby G. S. Boritt, Scott Hancock, John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger, Ira BerlinISBN 0195102223 (0-19-510222-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil Warby Barbara J. Fields, Ira Berlin , Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, Steven F. MillerISBN 0521431026 (0-521-43102-6)
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Slaves No More : Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil Warby Ira Berlin , Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. RowlandISBN 0521436923 (0-521-43692-3)
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Slaves Without Mastersby Ira BerlinISBN 0195029054 (0-19-502905-4)
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Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum Southby Ira BerlinISBN 039449041X (0-394-49041-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaves Without Masters; The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.'Book summary:Slaves Without Masters is a vivid and moving history of the quarter of a million free blacks who lived in the South before the Civil War. First published to great acclaim in 1974, Slaves Without Masters established Ira Berlin as one of the outstanding historians of African American life in slavery and freedom. It traces the lives of free black men and women, portraying their struggle for community, liberty, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society. [via]
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War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War IIby Stephen E. Ambrose, Michael C.C. Adams, G. Boritt, Ira BerlinISBN 019508845X (0-19-508845-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II'Book summary:The Civil War and the World War II stand as the two great cataclysms of American history. They were our two costliest wars, with well over a million casualties suffered in each. And they were transforming moments in our history as well, times when the life of the nation and the great experiment in democracy--government of the people, by the people, for the people--seemed to hang in the balance. Now, in War Comes Again, eleven eminent historians--including three Pulitzer Prize winners, all veterans of the Second World War--offer an illuminating comparison of these two epic events in our national life.
The range of essays here is remarkable, the level of insight consistently high, and the quality of the writing is superb. For instance, Stephen Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, June 6th, 1944, offers an intriguing comparison of the two great military leaders of each war--Grant and Eisenhower. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert V. Bruce takes a revealing look at the events that foreshadowed the two wars. Gerald Linderman, author of Embattled Courage, examines the two wars from the point of view of the combat soldier. And Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., describes how both Lincoln and FDR went around strict observance of the Constitution in order to preserve the Constitution. There is, in addition, a fascinating discussion of the crucial role played by spying during the two wars, by Peter Maslowski; a look at the diplomacy of Lincoln and Roosevelt, by Howard Jones; and essays on the impact of the wars on women and on African Americans, by D'Ann Campbell, Richard Jensen, and Ira Berlin. In perhaps the most gripping piece in the book, Michael C.C. Adams offers an unflinching look at war's destructiveness, as he argues that the evils we associate with "bad wars" (such as Vietnam) are equally true of "good wars." And finally, in perhaps the most provocative essay in the book, Russell Weigley, one of America's most eminent military historians, maps the evolution of American attitudes toward war to our present belief that the only acceptable war is one that is short, inexpensive, and certain of victory. Would any great commander, Weigley asks, would a Lee or a Grant or a Marshall, refuse to fight unless he knew he couldn't lose? "Is not a willingness to run risks for the sake of cherished values and interests close to the heart of what defines greatness in a human being or in a nation?"
Another Pulitzer winner and World War II veteran, Don E. Fehrenbacher, concludes War Comes Again with a very personal look at two common soldiers who have no monuments, who have not been mentioned in previous histories, but who point at the essence of these two wars and are "embedded in the very structure of the enduring nation and the world we live in." [via]More editions of War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II:
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The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper Southby Ira Berlin , Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. ReidyISBN 0521417422 (0-521-41742-2)
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