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  • Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

    Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Big Prince Whitten, the black Seminole Abraham, and General Georges Biassou were “Atlantic creoles,” Africans who found their way to freedom by actively engaging in the most important ... Leer más

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  • Against the Odds

    Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas

    Edición de Jane G. Landers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
    The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum ... Leer más

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    The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

    de Carrie Gibson ...
    A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and ... Leer más

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  • Mosquito Empires

    Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914

    de J. R. McNeill ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among ... Leer más

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  • Independence Lost

    Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian tells the “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) story of the Revolutionary War through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society—including enslaved people, American Indians, women, and British loyalists—in a revised edition with a new preface and afterword.**Kathleen DuVal is featured in the new Ken Burns documentary The American Revolution.**Winner ... Leer más

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  • Eternity Street

    Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

    "[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among ... Leer más

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  • The Strange Career of William Ellis

    The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

    de Karl Jacoby ...
    **Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal**A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the ... Leer más

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  • Maroon Societies

    Rebel Slave Communities in the America

    de Richard Price ...
    Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, ... Leer más

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  • South to Freedom

    Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

    A “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to MexicoThe Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, ... Leer más

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  • This Vast Southern Empire

    Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

    de Matthew Karp ...
    Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the ... Leer más

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  • Seeds of Empire

    Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but ... Leer más

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