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  • Spearheading Environmental Change

    The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian

    by Jill P. May, Robert E. May ...
    Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental movement in late twentieth-century America. Spearheading Environmental Change highlights Fithian’s legislative efforts regarding three water-related issues that profoundly concerned Hoosier and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Debunking the Yule Log Myth

    The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend

    by Robert E. May ...
    A powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls "a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.”According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master's fireplace. As ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Yuletide in Dixie

    Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory

    by Robert E. May ...
    How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics

    Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America

    by Robert E. May ...
    Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim, Revised Edition

    Edited by Robert E May ...
    From French intervention in Mexico to British interests in the Caribbean, the impact of the Civil War extended far beyond military campaigns in Virginia, diffusing widely into the Atlantic world. Revised to take into account the outpouring of scholarship on Civil War diplomacy that has appeared since the book was first published, The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim features essays by ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Cowboy Capitalist

    John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa

    by Charles van Onselen ...
    Series series Reconsiderations in Southern African History
    The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil Rhodes. Yet, the raid was less a serious attempt to overthrow a Boer government ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Manifest Destiny's Underworld

    Filibustering in Antebellum America

    by Robert E. May ...
    This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America’s notorious “filibusters” — the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

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  • Blood and Daring

    How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

    by John Boyko ...
    Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war- ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

    $22.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Flight

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

    by Kevin M. Kruse ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

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