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Abraham Lincoln Slavery and Civil War: Selected Writings and Speechesby Abraham Lincoln, Michael P. JohnsonISBN 0312208545 (0-312-20854-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indiesby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289418 (0-316-28941-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies'Book summary:Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small contingent of naval vessels to preserve the peace and eliminate piracy. With intrepid daring and brilliant strategies, Hornblower wins his victories. With this series of adventures, Volume 11, Hornblower's professional life as a British naval officer reaches its climax, not in a battle against men, but against nature. Here the inner Hornblower shows his colors. [via]
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The Adversaryby Julian MayISBN 0345352440 (0-345-35244-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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America: A Concise Historyby David Brody, Lynn Dumenil, James HenrettaISBN 0312256132 (0-312-25613-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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America: A Concise History, to 1877by David Brody, James A. Henretta, Lynn DumenilISBN 031241563X (0-312-41563-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America: A Concise History, to 1877'Book summary:America: A Concise History has become the best-selling brief book for the U.S. History survey because of the uncommon value it offers instructors and students alike. The authors' own abridgement preserves the analytical power of the parent text, America's History, while offering all the flexibility of a brief book. The latest scholarship, hallmark global perspective, and handy format combine with the best full-color art and map program of any brief text to create a book that students read and enjoy.
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America's History: Since 1865by James A. HenrettaISBN 0312409346 (0-312-40934-6)
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America's History: To 1877by James A. HenrettaISBN 0312193939 (0-312-19393-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Ashlingby Isobelle CarmodyISBN 0312869568 (0-312-86956-8)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Bahamian Loyalists and Their Slavesby Gail SaundersISBN 0333358317 (0-333-35831-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Caribbean
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The Big Bad Wolfby James PattersonISBN 0316743844 (0-316-74384-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americasby Adam Potkay, Sandra BurrISBN 0312125186 (0-312-12518-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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- Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas Selections from the Writings of Ukawsaw Gronni: ISBN 0312121334 (0-312-12133-4)
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Blood Gamesby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0312084412 (0-312-08441-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Games'Book summary:Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a character first introduced to the reading world as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first meet him in Paris during the reign of Louis XV when he is, apparently, a wealthy, worldly, charismatic aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he is a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BC, turned in his late-thirties in 2080 BC and destined to roam the world forever, watching and participating in history and, through the author, giving us an amazing perspective on the time-tapestry of human civilization.
In Blood Games, beginning during the reign of Nero, Saint-Germain finds his way through the political turmoil of the time, and becomes the lover of the incomparable Atta Olivia Clemens. [via]More editions of Blood Games:
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0307278441 (0-307-27844-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
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British America 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empireby Steven SarsonISBN 0340760109 (0-340-76010-9)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Burton RaffelISBN 0300119879 (0-300-11987-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. -
Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
Celt and Roman: The Celts of Italyby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0312214197 (0-312-21419-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Charles Sumnerby David Herbert DonaldISBN 0306807203 (0-306-80720-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Chimeraby Will ShetterlyISBN 0312866305 (0-312-86630-5)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chimera'Book summary:Private investigator Chase Maxwell is about to lose the rent in a poker game when a beautiful, mysterious woman walks into his life. He learns too late that his new employer, Zoe Domingo, is a chimera, a "critter," a genetic-engineered mix of human and animal genes. Chimeras have no rights--they are animals, property--and Zoe has no protection now that her human mentor has been murdered. Maxwell must help Zoe find the murderer, a relentless and powerful enemy, before they, too, are killed.
The mean streets of Raymond Chandler's L.A. stretch into a dark and dangerous future in Will Shetterly's transgenre novel, the SF mystery Chimera. The concept of intelligent animal-human hybrids is as old as H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, but Shetterly bravely makes explicit the parallels between his chimeras and the pre-Civil War status of African-Americans, and he is rarely heavy-handed. A thought-provoking, hard-boiled page-turner, Chimera should please both science fiction and detective fiction fans. --Cynthia Ward [via]
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States Based upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigationsby Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Frederick Law OlmstedISBN 0306807238 (0-306-80723-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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A Death In Brazil: A Book Of Omissionsby Peter RobbISBN 0312424876 (0-312-42487-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural Americaby Ronald TakakiISBN 0316831115 (0-316-83111-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America'Book summary:"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America.
In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald Takaki offers a fresh perspective - a "re-visioning" - of our nation's past. [via]
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcriptsby James C. ScottISBN 0300056699 (0-300-05669-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Encyclopedia of Antislavery And Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American Historyby John R. McKivigan, Peter Hinks, R. Owen WilliamsISBN 0313331421 (0-313-33142-1)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Farseekersby Isobelle CarmodyISBN 0312869576 (0-312-86957-6)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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The Federation Worldby James WhiteISBN 0345352637 (0-345-35263-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Ownby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0307382389 (0-307-38238-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own'Book summary:Finding Oprahs Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by historys unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know ones distant tribal roots in Africa.
For Oprah, the path back to the past was emotion-filled and profoundly illuminating, connecting the narrative of her family to the larger American narrative and anchoring her in a way not previously possible. For the reader, Finding Oprahs Roots offers the possibility of an equally rewarding experience. [via]More editions of Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own:
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Firedrake's Eyeby Patricia FinneyISBN 0312092873 (0-312-09287-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firedrake's Eye'Book summary:Troubled by visions, Tom O'Bedlam, the mad son of a prominent Catholic family, wanders the London streets, where he finds evidence that his brother has launched a scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I. 40,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Foreverby Peter HamillISBN 0316735698 (0-316-73569-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever'Book summary:This is the magical, epic tale of Cormac O'Connor, who arrives in New York City from Ireland in 1741 and remains, well, forever. For Cormac has been given the gift of immortality, but only on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Through Cormac's eyes, we watch the city transform from a burgeoning settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the romantic, gaslit world of Edith Wharton's time, and finally to the pulsing, thriving metropolis of the present day. But this is also Cormac's story, as he explores the mysteries of time and immortality, death and loss, sex and love. Though his life is proof of enduring magic, the living of it takes place in a world that can be gloriously, or terribly, real. [via]
The Furiesby Suzy McKee CharnasISBN 0312866062 (0-312-86606-2)
Softcover, Orb Books
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Generation of Leavesby Robert BloomISBN 0345369572 (0-345-36957-2)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Gileadby Marilynne RobinsonISBN 031242440X (0-312-42440-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilead'Book summary:Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the possibility of transcendent order" Slate . In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life. Gilead is the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [via]
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The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slavesby Alan BakerISBN 0306811855 (0-306-81185-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Gloriana's Torchby Patricia FinneyISBN 0312312865 (0-312-31286-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gloriana's Torch'Book summary:The year is 1587. The Spanish are preparing to launch the Armada against the English and Queen Elizabeth. Ex-soldier David Becket, now responsible for the Queen's Ordnance discovers that large quantities of gunpowder are going astray. Can someone in the heart of the English government be selling it to the Spanish? Unaccountably he is plagued by vivid dreams of England invaded, an alternative story where the Armada is victorious. Patricia Finney's brilliant reworking of the Armada legend is an imaginative tour de force. Thrilling, intricate, and inspiring, this is a tale of courage, of love, and, ultimately, redemption[via]
The Golden Torcby Julian MayISBN 0345324196 (0-345-32419-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A History of Antigua: The Unsuspected Isleby Brian DydeISBN 0333751698 (0-333-75169-8)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugeesby Caroline MooreheadISBN 0312425619 (0-312-42561-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Traveling for nearly two years and across four continents, Caroline Moorehead takes readers on a journey to understand why millions of people are forced to abandon their homes, possessions, and families in order to find a place where they may, quite literally, be allowed to live. Moorehead's experience living and working with refugees puts a human face on the news, providing unforgettable portraits of the refugees she meets in Cairo, Guinea, Sicily, Lebanon, England, Australia, Finland, and at the U.S.-Mexico border. Human Cargo changes our understanding of what it means to have and lose a place in the world, and reveals how the refugee "problem" is on a par with global crises such as terrorism and world hunger.More editions of Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees:
In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thislewood in Jamaica, 1750-36by Douglas HallISBN 0333480309 (0-333-48030-9)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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John Clarkson and the African Adventureby Ellen Gibson WilsonISBN 0333265947 (0-333-26594-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, and Tyrantby J.F.C. FullerISBN 0306804220 (0-306-80422-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Lincoln Readerby Paul M. AngleISBN 0313227578 (0-313-22757-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. MeyerISBN 0306809540 (0-306-80954-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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The Many-Colored Landby Julian MayISBN 0345324447 (0-345-32444-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Naming the New Worldby Calvin BakerISBN 0312151780 (0-312-15178-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Negrophobia: An Urban Parableby Darius JamesISBN 0312093500 (0-312-09350-0)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Nonborn Kingby Julian MayISBN 0345314212 (0-345-31421-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With Related Documentsby Thomas Jefferson, David WaldstreicherISBN 0312257139 (0-312-25713-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes on the State of Virginia: With Related Documents'Book summary:Thomas Jefferson published one book, Notes on the State of Virginia; and ever since, it has been the touchstone for understanding Jefferson's ideas about Republican government, the environment, education, race and slavery, and Native-white relations. The author's unique analysis of Jefferson's thoughts on these crucial issues and their impact on the formation of the United States make this edition of the Notes the first to present these issues as fundamentally inseparable. A collection of lively letters and other documents related to the Notes accompanies them, and charts the evolution of the book in the revolutionary crucible and during the heady early days of the new nation. An introduction by David Waldstreicher places the work in the contexts of the Revolution and the social and cultural history of Jefferson's Virginia, with particular attention to developing ideas about race and nature. A chronology of the life and career of Thomas Jefferson and selected bibliography also add to the pedagogical benefits of this volume.[via]More editions of Notes on the State of Virginia: With Related Documents:
Obernewtynby Isobelle CarmodyISBN 0312869584 (0-312-86958-4)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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On Winter's Windby Patricia HermesISBN 0316359785 (0-316-35978-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Pharos: A Ghost Storyby Alice ThompsonISBN 0312318103 (0-312-31810-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Plessy V. Ferguson: A Brief History With Documentsby Brook ThomasISBN 0312162847 (0-312-16284-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Plessy Vs Fergusonby ThomasISBN 0312137435 (0-312-13743-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plessy Vs Ferguson'Book summary:In 1896, The Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision made legal a system of "separate but equal" racial segregation not overruled until 1954. Using the full text of the Court's opinion, along with a selection of responses to the ruling, Brook Thomas allows students to re-create a context of the complicated debates and conditions in which the decision took place.[via]More editions of Plessy Vs Ferguson:
Raising Holy Hellby Bruce OldsISBN 0312420935 (0-312-42093-5)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Buttonby Nick HazlewoodISBN 0312252137 (0-312-25213-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and made a strong impression on many of the major figures in Britain, eventually becoming a celebrity. Charles Darwin himself befriended the Fuegian and later wrote about their time together on The Beagle, voyaging back to the southern tip of South America. Their friendship influenced one of the most important and controversial works of the century, On the Origin of the Species.
Upon his return to Tierra del Fuego, Jemmy found that life could never be the same for him there. The Beagle's captain deposited the young man on a lonely, windswept shore and charged him with the tasks of "civilizing" his people and bringing God to his homeland. At first ostracized and attacked by other Fuegians, Jemmy later became the target of zealous and ambitious missionaries. Thirty years after his return, a missionary schooner in Tierra del Fuego was attacked, with nearly everyone on board killed, and Button himself was accused of leading the massacre.
Button's life story illustrates how the lofty ideals of imperialism often resulted in appalling consequences. Thoroughly researched and remarkably well written, this fascinating and poignant story is ultimately about survival, revenge, murder, and the destruction of a whole race of people, blurring the boundaries of civilization and savagery.More editions of Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button:
Serving the Master: Masters and Slaves in 19th Century Moroccoby Mohammed Ennaji, Seth GraebnerISBN 031221152X (0-312-21152-X)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Shaping Of America: A Geographical Perspective On 500 Years Of Historyby D.W. MeinigISBN 0300104324 (0-300-10432-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Silver Pigsby Lindsey DavisISBN 031235777X (0-312-35777-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery'Book summary:[via]When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her--a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain--and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco&. -
The Slave and the Freeby Suzy McKee CharnasISBN 0312869126 (0-312-86912-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Slave and the Free'Book summary:After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.[via]
It started with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning.
In continued with Motherlines, where Alldera the Runner is a fugitive among the Riding Women, who live a tribal life of horse-thieving and storytelling, killing the few men who approach their boundaries.
The books that finish Alldera's story, The Furies and The Conqueror's Child, are now available. Once you start here, you won't want to stop until you've read the last word of the last book.More editions of The Slave and the Free:
Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documentsby Laurent Dubois, John D. GarrigusISBN 031241501X (0-312-41501-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Slavery: A World Historyby Milton MeltzerISBN 0306805367 (0-306-80536-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Centuryby Barbara Jeanne FieldsISBN 0300040326 (0-300-04032-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:During the tumultuous Civil War era, the border state of Maryland occupied a middle position both geographically and socially. Situated between the slave-labor states of the lower South and the free-labor states of the North, Maryland-with a black population almost evenly divided between slave and free-has long received credit for moderation and mediation in an era of extremes. Barbara Fields argues that this position in between concealed as intense and immoderate a drama as enacted in the Deep South. According to Fields, "The middle ground imparted an extra measure of bitterness to enslavement, set close boundaries on the liberty of the ostensibly free, and played havoc with bonds of love, friendship, and family among slaves and between them and free black people." Moreover, the work of destroying slavery and constructing a society of free labor proved to be as difficult in Maryland as in the former Confederacy-even more difficult, in some respects. Probing the relationships among Maryland's slaves and free blacks, its slaveholders, and its non-slaveholders, Fields shows how centrist moderation turned into centrist immoderation under the stress of the Civil War and how social channels formed by slavery established the course of struggle over the shape of free society. In so doing, she offers historical reflections on the underlying character both of slave society and of the society that replaced it. In this prizewinning history, Fields shows how Maryland's centrist moderation turned into centrist immoderation under the stress of the Civil War and argues that Reconstruction proved to be at least as difficult in Maryland as in the Confederacy. "A marvelous book, written with compassion and humor and a rare talent for irony. It establishes Barbara Jeanne Fields as a major historian of the American South, for she has provided new boundaries for understanding the relationship between race and class and she has contributed greatly to our overall understanding of the political economy of slavery."-Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Journal of Social History "[A] perceptive and provocative book.... Students of slavery and of the South cannot afford to overlook it."-Daniel C. Littlefield, American Historical Review "Writing in a clear, spirited style, Fields probes the relationships between slaves and free blacks, between slaveholders and nonslaveholders, and between Maryland's conflicting sections."-Choice "A stunning achievement.... The book is must reading for those with a special interest in the nineteenth-century South; those with a general interest in the development of capitalist relations of production will also not want to miss it."-Joseph P. Reidy, Science and Society Winner of the American Historical Association's 1986 John H. Dunning Prize [via]
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St Kitts: Cradle of the Caribbeanby Brian DydeISBN 0333499417 (0-333-49941-7)
Softcover, Hunter Pub Inc
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Burton RaffelISBN 0300108168 (0-300-10816-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:Designed for teaching the conflicts, this critical edition of Shakespeares The Tempest reprints the Bevington text of the play along with critical essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The play and essays are supported by distinctive editorial material including introductions to Shakespeare's life and work, to critical conflicts in literary studies, and to each controversy that helps students grapple not only with the plays critical issues but also with cultural debates about literature itself.[via]More editions of The Tempest:
The Temple Dancer: A Novel of Indiaby John SpeedISBN 0312325487 (0-312-32548-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slaveryby Steven WiseISBN 0306814501 (0-306-81450-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology Of British, American, And Canadian Literature 1767-1867by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, Chris Koenig-WoodyardISBN 0321217128 (0-321-21712-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Unicorn's Bloodby Patricia FinneyISBN 0312200390 (0-312-20039-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824by A. Nikitenko, Peter Kolchin, Helen Saltz JacobsonISBN 0300097166 (0-300-09716-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Up from Slaveryby Booker T. Washington, W. Fitzhugh BrundageISBN 0312394489 (0-312-39448-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery'Book summary:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. [via]
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Warp Angelby Stuart HopenISBN 0312859031 (0-312-85903-1)
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White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century Southby Martha HodesISBN 0300077505 (0-300-07750-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from the Liberatorby William E. CainISBN 0312103867 (0-312-10386-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Women's Rights Emerges Within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History With Documentsby Kathryn Kish SklarISBN 0312101449 (0-312-10144-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Rights Emerges Within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History With Documents'Book summary:Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s and the emergence of race as a divisive issue that finally split that movement in 1869. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others, giving students immediate access to the world of abolitionists and women's right advocates and their passionate struggles for emancipation. Headnotes to the documents, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, questions to consider, a chronology, and an index are also included.[via]More editions of Women's Rights Emerges Within the Antislavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History With Documents:
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Del Amor Y Otros Demonios/of Love And Other Demonsby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350444 (0-307-35044-4)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories Sa
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