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  • The Arts of Leading

    Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

    de Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick, John Miles, Kristin Bezio, Paul Escott, Thavolia Glymph, David Lubin, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Pegram Harrison, Melissa Jones Briggs, Corey Walker ...
    A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Paying Freedom's Price

    A History of African Americans in the Civil War

    de Paul David Escott ...
    Series series The African American Experience Series
    Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or Lincoln’s emergence as the great emancipator, Escott concentrates on the black military and civilian ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Dominoes Level 1: Jake's Parrot

    de Paul Hearn, Yetis Ozkan, John Escott, Bill Bowler ...
    Series Libro 1 - Dominoes
    When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves travelling, and talking about his job – making computer games for BananaTech in America. ‘Your new game’s going to be the best thing at the Irish Computer Exhibition!’ people at BananaTech Ireland tell him. But living with a noisy parrot isn’t easy, and when Jake asks the most beautiful girl at work out to dinner, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Many Excellent People

    Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolina’s social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the nineteenth century. Paul Escott portrays North Carolina’s major social groups, focusing on the elite, the ordinary white farmers or workers, and the blacks, and analyzes their attitudes, social structure, and power relationships. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Slavery Remembered

    A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. Paul Escott’s sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narratives and his quantitative analysis of the narratives as a whole eloquently present the differing beliefs and experiences of masters and slaves. The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Black Suffrage

    Lincoln's Last Goal

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    In April 1865, as the Civil War came to a close, Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed enslaved people. Esteemed historian Paul Escott takes this milestone as an opportunity to explore popular sentiment in the North on this issue and, at the same time, to examine the vigorous efforts of Black leaders, in both North and South, to organize, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Confederacy

    The Slaveholders' Failed Venture

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series Reflections on the Civil War Era
    A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort.Paul Escott's The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture offers a unique and multifaceted perspective on the United States' most pivotal and devastating conflict, examining the course of the Civil War from the perspective of the Southern ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Worst Passions of Human Nature

    White Supremacy in the Civil War North

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    The American North’s commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, however, was far more complex and troubling. In his latest book, Paul Escott lays bare the contrast between progress on emancipation and the persistence of white supremacy in the Civil War North. Escott analyzes ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Uncommonly Savage

    Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    “Truly impressive. Travels uncharted terrain, moving deftly through a vast scholarship in two languages. The research is sound, the prose crisp and accessible, and the subject unquestionably important.”—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory“Illuminates the enduring potency of memory in shaping postwar societies for generations after the fighting ceased, ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Civil War Political Tradition

    Ten Portraits of Those Who Formed It

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter’s 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War. Escott profiles Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Lincoln's Dilemma

    Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the question of all African Americans’ future. In this fascinating new book Paul Escott considers the ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • "What Shall We Do with the Negro?"

    Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America

    de Paul D. Escott ...
    Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for those in both the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD