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  • Economic Literacy

    Basic Economics with an Attitude

    Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with An Attitude, explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. While covering the fundamentals of the discipline, the author also includes a wide range of new material focusing on the structure, causes and results of the "Great Recession". From ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The United States and the Global Economy

    From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis

    Financial collapse. Global recession. The revival of free-market policies. Massive and increasing inequalities. Housing bubbles and record foreclosures. Severe strain in the European Union. Emergence of China and other major players on the international economic scene. Every day, media outlets bombard us with news and possible explanations for the financial, economic, and political crises. In The ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • An Economic History of the United States

    Conquest, Conflict, and Struggles for Equality

    The economy of the United States is constantly evolving in response to wars, technological innovations, cultural revolutions, and political maneuverings. Tracing the economic machine of the United States from its first experiments in the colonies to the post–Great Recession era of today, Frederick S. Weaver creates a dynamic narrative of this country’s progression through times of feast and times ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Confederates in the Tropics

    Charles Swett's Travelogue

    Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swett's peers from Mississippi and other southern states invited him to explore the possibility of settling in British Honduras or the Republic of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Confederates in the Tropics

    Charles Swett's Travelogue

    Charles Swett (1828–1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swett’s peers from Mississippi and other southern states invited him to explore the possibility of settling in British Honduras or the Republic of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Inside The Volcano

    The History And Political Economy Of Central America

    This book provides a historical background to recent Central American social unrest, repression, and revolution to help readers engage in current arguments, claims, and debates in a critically and historically informed manner. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Latin America In The World Economy

    Mercantile Colonialism To Global Capitalism

    Latin America in the World Economy considers the dual aspect of Latin American development: how external factors (phases of world capitalism since Columbus) interweave with internal factors (Latin American culture, politics, and social groups). Weaver skillfully demonstrates how domestic social conflicts and power relations have consistently capitalized on changes in the international economy ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • American Republics

    A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • African Founders

    How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

    In this sweeping, foundational work of American history, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Finding Florida

    The True History of the Sunshine State

    by T. D. Allman ...
    A National Book Award Nominee and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, “God’s waiting room,” and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it’s home to nineteen million. The site of ... Read more

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  • The Birth of America

    From Before Columbus to the Revolution

    In this provocative account of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events, individuals, and themes of this critical period. With vivid descriptions of the societies that people from Europe came from and with an emphasis on what they believed they were going to, Polk introduces the native Indians encountered in the New World and the black Africans who were brought across the Atlantic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Amistad Rebellion

    An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

    **"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia TribuneA unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue—from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship**In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad ... Read more

    $11.99 USD