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Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and...
$29.91
The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children.She finds that when th..
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Strugg...
$11.40
Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he cons..
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of...
$12.02
Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved..
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas (The Nathan ...
$67.48
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millen..
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivatio...
$18.15
Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United State..
Blake's Four Zoas: The Design of a Dream
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Book by Wilkie, Brian, Johnson, Mary Lynn Author: Johnson, Mary Lynn Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674076451 ISBN-13: 9780674076457..
Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More...
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Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. During the mid-twentieth century, the dominant position of the United States in the postwar world economy led to a rapid expansion of educ..
Books 1-2 (Volume I) (Loeb Classical Library)
$34.72
Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a work of enduring importance, not only for its insi..
Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebe...
$17.60
Each time a child was born in bondage, the system of slavery began anew. Although raised by their parents or by surrogates in the slave community, children were ultimately subject to the rule of their owners. Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenk..
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
$14.58
ReviewAmericans do not like to talk about failure. It is the underside of an American dream that stresses winning over losing, succeeding over succumbing. But not everyone makes it and the story of failure has a history that Scott Sandage probes with subtlety and grace in this impressive work of cul..
Borodin: Stalin's Man in China
$30.10
Book by Jacobs, Dan Author: Jacobs, Dan Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674079108 ISBN-13: 9780674079106..
Brandeis of Boston
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Estranged from both the Jewish and Puritan elite, Louis D. Brandeis developed from a Harvard school business lawyer to a progressive fighter of monopolies and leader for social reform Author: Gal, Allon Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674080432 ISBN..
Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk...
$9.27
Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written by a highly respected federal judge, who would go on to serve on the Supreme Court, and who obviously recognizes the necessity of regulation but perceives i..
Breathing under Water and Other East European Essa...
$23.48
Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed in their attempts to transform the Eastern European into Homo sovieticus.These superb essays focus o..
Breathing under Water and Other East European Essa...
$9.81
Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed in their attempts to transform the Eastern European into Homo sovieticus.These superb essays focus o..
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and P...
$11.46
A Guardian Best Book of the Year“A gripping study of white power…Explosive.” New York Times“Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.” Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution.Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win..
By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment ...
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On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japan..
Byzantium Confronts the West 1180-1204.
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Book by Brand, Charles M. Author: Brand, Charles M. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674089758 ISBN-13: 9780674089754..
Caesar: Politician and Statesman
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In 1912 a young scholar published a slim volume investigating the social structure of the late Roman Republic, which was in due course to transform the study of Roman history. The author, Mattias Gelzer, went on to hold the Chair of Ancient History at Frankfurt and to become the greatest German-spea..
Caesar: The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library)
$26.52
Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a “democrat” against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome..
Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a...
$17.36
Book by Vogel, Ezra F. Author: Vogel, Ezra F. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674094751 ISBN-13: 9780674094758..
Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childb...
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Childbirth is a quintessential family event that simultaneously holds great promise and runs the risk of danger. By the late nineteenth century, the birthing room had become a place where the goals of the new scientific professional could be demonstrated, but where traditional female knowledge was i..
Catholic Schools and the Common Good
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The authors examine a broad range of Catholic high schools to determine whether or not students are better educated in these schools than they are in public schools. They find that the Catholic schools do have an independent effect on achievement, especially in reducing disparities between disadvant..
Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Clas...
$20.61
Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 84-54 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams..
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (NATHAN I HU...
$9.01
In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in cons..