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  • The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1, The Ancient Mediterranean World

    Edited by Keith Bradley, Paul Cartledge ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Slavery
    Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Human Resource Management

    People and Performance

    Edited by Keith Bradley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book was originally published in 1992. The skills shortage of the late 1980s demonstrated that managers need to support their corporate strategies with coherent policies for recruiting, developing and retaining people. While the recession has slowed the job market and caused some of these pressures to abate, they will reassert themselves with a vengeance when recovery comes: the demographic ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian

    Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor

    by Keith Bradley ...
    Series Book 62 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires has a claim to historical authenticity.In Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian, Keith Bradley explains how ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed ...
    Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives: Arkansas, all seven parts

    by Library of Congress ...
    Typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, assembled by the Library of Congress Project, Work Projects Administration (WPA), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and first published in 1941. As explained in the introduction: "The present Library of Congress Project, under the sponsorship of the Library of Congress, is a unit of the Public Activities Program of the ... Read more

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  • American Colonies

    The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

    by Alan Taylor, Eric Foner ...
    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, ... Read more

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  • Master of the Mountain

    Thomas Jefferson & His Slaves

    by Henry Wiencek ...
    Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, ... Read more

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  • The Amistad Rebellion

    An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    **"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

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  • The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

    The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

    by Daina Ramey Berry ...
    This “must-read for anyone interested in understanding American history” reframes how we think about slavery, reparations, 19th-century medical education—and the value of life and death (Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton).“A brilliant resurrection of the forgotten people who gave their lives to build our country.” —Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIn life and ... Read more

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  • Thirty Years a Slave

    Enriched edition. From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of Louis Hughes

    by Louis Hughes, Cameron Farley ...
    In "Thirty Years a Slave," Louis Hughes delivers a poignant and harrowing autobiographical narrative that chronicles his life as an enslaved person in the antebellum American South. Written in the first person, Hughes's prose blends vivid imagery with stark realism to capture the brutality of slavery and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. His story unfolds against a backdrop of societal ... Read more

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  • Daughters of the Trade

    Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

    by Pernille Ipsen ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold ... Read more

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