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  • Hybrid Constitutions

    Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America

    by Vicki Hsueh ...
    In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals how diverse constitutional thought and practice were at the time, and how colonial ambitions ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Colonialism and Its Legacies

    by Taiaike Alfred, Dipesh Chakabarty, Enrique Dussel, Emmanuel Eze, Vicki Hsueh, Margaret Kohn, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jennifer Pitts, Ofelia Schutte, Jessé Souza, Iris Marion Young, Sankar Muthu, Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects structured and shaped much of modern political theory, how concepts from political philosophy ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Democratic Arts of Mourning

    Political Theory and Loss

    by Osman Balkan, Vicki Hsueh, Steven Johnston, Claudia Leeb, Heather Pool, Joel Schlosser, Charles Fred Alford, Shirin S. Deylami, David Myer Temin, Simon Stow, Bonnie Honig ...
    The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning in previous scholarship on the politics of tragedy, this book includes twelve chapters that clarify ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    by Ron Chernow ...
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    $16.99 USD

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  • Junípero Serra

    California's Founding Father

    by Steven W. Hackel ...
    A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's historyIn the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were freeing themselves from the burdens of colonial rule, Spaniards moved up the California coast to build frontier outposts of empire and church. At the head of this effort was Junípero Serra, an ambitious Franciscan who hoped to convert ... Read more

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  • The Transit of Empire

    Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

    by Jodi A. Byrd ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands ... Read more

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  • Freedom Just Around the Corner

    A New American History 1585–1828

    by Walter A. McDougall ...
    "This unusual book . . . may have a major impact on how we Americans understand ourselves. . . . Fast paced and full of shrewd judgements." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review, front pageThis powerful reinterpretation of United States history is remarkable not only for its scholarship and historical breadth, but also in its assertion that the success of the country depends in a large part ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The British Empire

    Edited by Jane Samson ...
    Series series Oxford Readers
    The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural studies to the history of science, academics are engaged in a series of debates about empire which move far beyond traditional preoccupations with metropolitan strategy, economics, and rivalry. Using primary and secondary documentary sources, this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Masters of Empire

    Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

    by Michael A. McDonnell ...
    "[A] magisterial tale of how the Anishinaabe Odawa lived through and shaped the history of North America and the early modern world." —Kathleen DuVal, professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIn Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Penn Reading Project Edition

    by Benjamin Franklin, Amy Gutmann ...
    Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Uganda

    by Richard J. Reid ...
    This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and ... Read more

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  • Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

    Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture

    by Hugh Howard ...
    Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant statesman, Jefferson was all but unknown as an artist and an architect for nearly a century. ... Read more

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