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  • HOW THE BAHAMAS HELPED TO SHAPE THE ATLANTIC WORLD

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  • Captive Paradise

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    A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire

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  • Taking Hawaii

    How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff

    The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of ... Leer más

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  • We Slaves of Suriname

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    Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Europeans in search of gold through the era of the slave trade and the period of Dutch colonial ... Leer más

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  • Panama Fever

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  • The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

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  • A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818

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    The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade—the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland Canada—the production of codfish did not require year-round residence. It did, however, require numerous men, young and old, for the fishing season, which ran from ... Leer más

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  • White Debt

    The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

    When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people in 1823, the largest in the British Empire and a key trigger in the abolition of slavery. Charting the dramatic build-up to this ... Leer más

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